"Three years ago, Story of the Week presented the Kate Chopin story, 'A Respectable Woman,' whose heroine is unsettled by her attraction to Gouvernail, her husband’s friend. Gouvernail appears again in the much longer, more complex story 'Athénaïse,' and he fills a very similar role: the 'sensitive bachelor' (to borrow author Joyce Dyer’s characterization) whose attentions to a married woman straddle the line between flirtatiousness and thoughtfulness. Athénaïse, the married woman of the story, is trapped—limited by the opportunities afforded to her by society."
Athénaïse
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