ABSTRACT
This chapter, written five years after the publication of Kate Chopin's first short story and five years before The Awakening came out, provides valuable insight into her own preoccupations. In 1974, Cathy N. Davidson placed The Awakening in the context of Jane Austen, the Brontes, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton for the nineteenth-century part of a course on women writers. The Awakening constitutes Chopin's exploration of that female consciousness. Robert Stone's novel is about Nancy Walker, actors, a production company and a film crew in America in the late twentieth century, who are making a film of Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening. Stone describes the epitome of decadence, moral bankruptcy and deracination in modern society. Stone certainly emerges as a careful reader of Chopin, and his novel is certainly a tribute to hers. Stone's location for the Grand Isle scenes is Bahai Honda, Baja, the Mexican part of the Gulf of Mexico.
