19世纪的美国开始了划时代的女性文学变革。女性开始从被禁锢的境况中觉醒,传统的道德风范和世俗的清规戒律使女性萌生了女性的自我意识。19世纪末20世纪初,女性成为越来越躁动不安引人注目的力量,女性问题也变得日益尖锐。当时美国文坛上一批敏感的女性作家开始在她们作品中表现这个主题,而凯特·肖班是她们中的杰出代表。 The 19th century America embarked on an epoch-making revolution in feminist literature. Women began to awake from the imprisonment situation. The traditional moral demeanor and secular rules and regulations enabled women to initiate women’s self-awareness. At the turn of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women became the more and more disturbing force of attention, and women’s issues also became increasingly acute. At that time, a group of sensitive female writers in the American literary world began to express this theme in their works, and Kate Chopin was their outstanding representative.