The author doesn’t suggest that any aspects of Chopin’s life are reflected in The Awakening.

The passage follows Chopin’s artistic development as a writer and how it was influenced by the changes that the local colorists and the New Women brought to 19th-century women’s fiction.

The author doesn’t suggest that Chopin is a typical example. If anything, he seems to suggest that she’s not typical of writers at the time; she wasn’t totally in line with the local colorists, and she was even more impressionistic than the New Women.

This claim isn’t made anywhere, so the passage can’t be meant to counter it. And anyway, the passage does show that Chopin’s fiction was influenced by external social circumstances: it was influenced by women’s literary movements underway at the time.

The author doesn’t comment on the “value” of anyone’s novels. He just explains how Chopin’s writing style was influenced by other writers.