Reflection Questions on Kate Chopin’s “Regret”
1. In what ways does the author describe Mamzelle Aurélie at the onset of the story?
He describes her physical look, and that she lives with no retreats. She has a farm and owns a gun. The gun shows that she's an independent women. She's old as well.
2. What is the setting? What clues help you determine the location of the story?
Louisiana, a farm and her cajun dialect proves her french heritage.
3. What is meant by a “pleasant odor of pinks in the air”?
it's a play of words that hints that feminism has returned to madam.
4. What does Mamzelle Aurélie inherit from her neighbor, Odile?
She inherits the four children
5. An epiphany is a noticeable change in a character over the course of a story. This change could be mentally, physically, or emotionally. What change, if any, does Mamzelle Aurélie undergo?
She goes from a cold and distant to very loving mother.
6. The story contains the following lines:
She turned into the house. There was much work awaiting her, for the children had left a sad disorder behind them; but she did not at once set about the task of righting it.
Why doesn’t Mamzelle Aurélie set about the task?
She doesn't want to realize that the kids are gone.
7. Who is Ponto?
The doggy
8. Why does Kate Chopin use the description “She cried like a man” to describe Mamzelle Aurélie actions?
When the children left, they took her feminism.
9. How do you feel about Mamzelle Aurélie at the end of the story?
I felt bad for her
10. What do you think the title of the story signifies?
Her regret to not having children.
