Chopin's A Pair Of Silk Stockings: Mrs. Sommers

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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 working like it used to at the beginning.
All of a sudden nothing is too expensive, she eats the expensive
restaurant, buys shoes, gloves, and magazines "such as she had become
accustomed to read in those days". These things give Mrs. Sommers a
"feeling of assurance, a sense of belonging to the well-dressed multitude".
Now, she is one of those rich important people, and everyone knows it,
thanks to all the material things she has. This becomes evident when
Chopin says "She was fastidious, and she was not too easily pleased".
The end of the play signifies the end of Mrs. Sommers's "luxurious
times". Mrs. Sommers is lost with all the other "gaudy" women, when,
"like a ...

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