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.

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.

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.

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.

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.