Chopin was born on February 8, 1851, and her father was killed in a train accident in 1855. Her father's passing had a great effect on her mother and his wife. his attitude. Chopin highlights this change in his mother in his story “The Story of an Hour.” Chopin married when he was twenty and had five children in ten years of marriage. Living the life of a mother and woman in the 19th century angered Chopin, as woman at the time did not have as many rights or as much freedom as men. This lack of rights and freedoms was a constant theme in his writings. In 1879 her husband died and left Chopin with five children and a large amount of debt. The following year his mother also died, and these two deaths devastated Chapin greatly. Chapin, however, took the loss of the two people closest to her as a sense of freedom, which other women were not allowed to enjoy at that point in history. In 1888, with his newfound freedom, he began writing his own short stories and used his experiences of three major deaths in his family as examples in his stories...