The right answer is B. American writers Nataniel Hawthorne and Kate Chopin produced their works at different times; in fact, Hawthorne is considered to be Romantic (for the accuracy, Dark Romantic) author, whereas Chopin is regarded as a forerunner of feminist writing from Realist Literature; thus the ways they demonstrate the interaction between their works' female characters and water differ quite subtly.
Hawthorne builds that association as a literal bond in which the little stream even speaks with the female character. We do not see any character study, though; during Romanticism psychological development was not the main point, but the often troublesome relationship between man and nature -and God, in which man feels and thinks to be over Creation- certainly was; instead, the character in Chopin's writing develops a far deeper interaction with the sea, nearly intimate, pushing towards future literary manifestations as those of Joyce, Faulkner and Proust.
