What is Rankin's response to Chopin's writing? Rankin is critical of Chopin's emphasis on passion. Rankin is critical of Chopin's prevailing strangeness. Rankin is complimentary of Chopin's regional style. Rankin is complimentary of Chopin's characters ...

Rankin’s response to Chopin’s writing is that Rankin is complimentary of Chopin's regional style. The excerpt you are referring is this one:

In The Awakening under her touch the Creole life of Louisiana glowed with a rich exotic beauty. The very atmosphere of the book is voluptuous, the atmosphere of the Gulf Coast, a place of strange and passionate moods.