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A Pair of Silk Stockings is a short story written by Kate ished in 1897,the story follows Mrs. Sommers who,rather than spending an unexpected fortune on her children,chooses instead to fund an afternoon of indulgence（放纵）with it.

ers finds herself the unexpected owner of $ seems to her a very large amount of way it fills up her worn wallet gives her a feeling of importance that she has not enjoyed for r a few days of reflection,she decides to use the money to purchase clothing for her children so they may look fresh and elegant and new for once in their lives.

So ers rests at the counter where she will begin her shopping e she finds a pair of silk stocking for she sale and is entranced by their thinking at all,she disregards her plan of buying clothes for her children and instead spends her money and her afternoon on purchases boots to go with her stockings,gets fitted for gloves,reads expensive magazines while lunching at a high-class restaurant,and ends her sharing chocolate with a fellow r the movie ends,she boards the cable car to return home with “a strong wish,a powerful longing that the cable would never stop anywhere,but go on and on with her forever.”

The story was first published in in chose to write for Vogue because the magazine was extraordinarily “fearless and truthful” in the 1890s in its description of women and their lar Emily Toth observers that many of Chopin’s stories were published in Vogue,including The Story of an Houre published these stories so earnestly that,Toth suggests,it gave Chopin the decidedly false impression that American reviewers would be accepting of her coming The Awakening.  

do we know about ers?

used to live a better life.                                 ended up not returning home.

got the $15 from her husband.                        bought clothes for her children.

does the underlined word in the third paragraph mean?

led.                    acted.                        rised.                        bled.

can be inferred from the last paragraph?

e was very popular in the 1890s.                    y Toth wrote The Story of an Hour.

e focuses on equality of men and women.              Awakening wasn’t well received in America.

is this passage mainly about?

life of Kate Chopin.                                        B.A short story by Kate Chopin.

poor life of American women.                        introduction to ers.

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