After the show ends, she makes her way home on a cable car, wishing that it would never stop. Sommers also buys herself boots, gloves, magazines, an expensive lunch, chocolates, and theater tickets. They are smooth enough to entice her to forego buying children’s clothes and purchase the stockings instead. Before she can buy clothing for her children, she comes upon a pair of silk stockings. Initially, she plans to buy her children new clothes with the money. The windfall itself is fifteen dollars, a sum equivalent to over 400 dollars in 2016. Sommers, who receives a windfall of money and chooses not to spend it on her children, but rather on herself. ![]() A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin is a short story originally published in the September 1897 issue of Vogue.
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