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Mrs. Sommers, of Kate Chopin's "A Pair of Silk Stockings" faces a major Man-vs.-Society conflict. She is a perfect example of how humans are tempted by material gain, "the life of luxury", and the vicious way society judges things (or people) ....

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... look "fresh and dainty". To those around her, Mrs. Sommers is this innocent family lady. However, the minute she buys the silk stockings is the minute she becomes a different Mrs. Sommers. All of a sudden everything she has in not good enough, she looks at her shopping bag as "shabby" and "old". Her parcel is "very small". At this point, she wants more. She begins to think without reason, and loses her sense of responsibility when she puts the stockings on in the ladies room. Mrs. Sommers is "not going through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself", she is "not thinking at all" at this point. Mrs. Sommers's mind is not w ...