He's using middle English language, and as we read the excerpt, we see that he is speaking more formal
Answer:
Chopin is showing us a social situation of the times with the woman as a prisoner of her husband. It is common knowledge that marriages are not always about mutual love between two people and during the time that Chopin was writing, this was more often the case. The story was created in the year of 1894. During that time, it shows how women weren't treated equally/fairly as men.
