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Hi, need to submit a 1250 words essay on the topic Analysis of Regret by Kate Chopin.

Most of her stories are about confrontations between individuals and society’s expectations from them, where her unconventional heroines more often than not, choose the road less traveled. Chopin’s feminist writings were frowned upon in the period when they were written because they were considered to be “the psychological, physical, social and sexual emancipation” (Toth, 242) of her works that appealed to the readers of the 1950’s, who identified with a woman’s need for freedom.

“Regret” is the story of Mamzelle Aurelie, a strong-willed, independent woman who shunned the comfortable trap of matrimony and instead chose to live all by herself on a farm, surrounded by her animals, happy with the choice of life she had deliberately made for herself. Aurelie strutted about her farm in a man’s hat and overcoat and boots, overseeing the running of her small homestead and farm. But things took a sudden change for the carefree woman when Odile, her neighbor left her four children in Aurelie’s care for two weeks, as she had to go and see her mother who was in the last stages of her life. The thought of caring for the children was most unnerving for Aurelie, who, until now had looked after only animals and plants. With a little help from her cook Aunt Ruby and helpful insights from the children themselves, Aurelie, in a few days learned how to take care of the tots. Her well-ordered home and life were disheveled by the little ones, but soon they became a welcome distraction from the tedium of her daily existence. Just as Aurelie had grown accustomed to this new life, Odile returned as abruptly as she had departed. Odile’s face was beaming at the thought of seeing her children once again, but Aurelie became restless at the thought of sending away the children, who had filled her life and heart with love and laughter. When the children and Odile left, Aurelie was once again engulfed by her loneliness.