A Pair of Silk Stockings
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All Themes Women and Gender Roles Consumerism and Escapism Social Class and Belonging Subverting the Male Gaze in the Public Sphere
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All Characters Mrs. Sommers Mr. Sommers Janie, Mag, and the Boys The Clerk The Man on the Cable Car The Shop Assistant The Waiter
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A Pair of Silk Stockings

by

Kate Chopin

A Pair of Silk Stockings Symbols

The Pair of Silk Stockings

The beautiful and delicate pair of silk stockings that Mrs. Sommers finds while shopping carry several levels of symbolic significance. In one sense, the stockings symbolize Mrs. Sommers’s repressed desires—the desire to feel beautiful, the…

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