PT133.S4.P2.Q9

PrepTest 133 - Section 4 - Passage 2 - Question 9

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Intro Topic · Chopin's literary development
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Background · Chopin grew up with sentimental novels
Features of sentimental novels.
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Intro Group · Local Colorists (L.C.)
Chopin initially modeled her work on local colorists. Who were they?
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L.C. Social Context · Expanding opportunities for women
Local colorists liked that traditional "women's culture" was dissolving.
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L.C. Attitude · Local colorists neutrally observed these changes
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L.C. Attitude Change · Local colorists mourn the loss of "women's culture"
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Illustrate L.C. Attitude · House as female nurturing, etc.
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Contrast to L.C. · Chopin writes about different subjects
Loneliness, isolation, frustration... not traditional "women's culture."
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Similar to L.C. · Chopin uses the same conventions
Callback to "scientific detachment" of the L.C. to tell melodramatic tales
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Evolution · Chopin discards L.C. in favor of New Women (N.W.)
Moved past L.C.'s nostalgia (for "women's culture"). Modeled later work on N.W.
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N.W. Details · Innovation in form and content
Unlike both sentimental novels and L.C.'s short stories, N.W. explores fantasy; parable; different worlds; and uses impressionistic methods to explore female consciousness
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The Awakening · Took N.W. approach further
Used impressionistic methods to render the female consciousness.
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Strongly supported. As the local colorists became focused on the disappearance of “women’s culture,” they wrote in an idealized way about things associated with that culture. Chopin didn’t share this outlook and started looking for inspiration elsewhere.

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Unsupported. Chopin adopted this tendency because it allowed her to avoid “the excesses” of sentimental novels, but nothing suggests that it robbed anyone’s writing of emotional impact. It just allowed Chopin to write emotionally charged stories without being over-the-top about it.

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Unsupported. There’s no indication that the New Women were inspired by the local colorists, and nothing suggests that Chopin thought they were. The New Women were just the next group to catch Chopin’s attention after the local colorists.

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Unsupported. Chopin didn’t have any issue with their focus on regional life. Rather, her problem with them was their backward-looking focus on the decline of “women’s culture” and on the symbols of that culture. And nothing suggests that Chopin thought the regional colorists failed to address “the new realms opening up to women.” As far as we know, they addressed those realms just fine.

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Anti-supported. Chopin used their conventions of narrating with scientific detachment precisely because they allowed her to portray extreme psychological states in a less over-the-top way.

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