The Kiss by Kate Chopin — Review

The short story “The Kiss” by Kate Chopin is about a woman who wants to marry a rich man. She carefully plans how to achieve her aims using all her charm. She is narcissistic, vain and manipulative, and she thinks that she has a right to play with people's emotions.

There are two male characters in the story. One is naive and has a weak character. Another, on the contrary, doesn't let women manipulate him.

These characters play in love like in a game of chess. The question who is the winner has a connection with the last line of the story: ‘A person can't have everything in this world’.



Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://americanliterature.com/author/kate-chopin/short-story/the-kiss