According to "a new biographical approach," by emily toth, how do chopin’s personal experiences influence the women characters in her writing? chopin’s experiences with financially savvy women in her family inspired her competent business women characters. chopin’s experiences with the self-reliant women in her family inspired her fiercely independent women characters. chopin’s experience with intellectual women in her family inspired her academic-minded women characters. chopin’s experience with nurturing women in her family inspired her gentle, maternal women characters.