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
dream ...

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