Our judgements and opinions affect our actions and emotions and, whether they are favorable or unfavorable, lead us to form prejudices. These prejudices can be detrimental, for they can prevent us from seeing the truth around us.
Kate Chopin, most often today considered a forerunner of feminism, addressed something quite different in her short story “A Matter of Prejudice” (1894),  wherein her main character simply learns to see humans as humans.
The story looks at our judgmental tendencies by inspecting the life of Madame Carambeau, who is “a woman of many prejudices, so many, in fact, that it would be difficult to name them all.”…