Kate Chopin's 'The Storm'

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“The Storm” is a short story by Kate Chopin. The short story depicts a lustful adulterous affair between two lovers who are portraying the main characters as Chopin describes in the story. The theme of the story is love and the central metaphor that represents the passion between Calixta and Alcee is “The Storm.” It is comprehend from the beginning that Chopin intention is to use the storm to move the story forward. The use of visual, symbolic, and thematic mode by chopin to present the short story makes it significant and interesting. In analyzing “The Storm,” it is obvious that Calixta loves her husband Bobint, but Calixta expresses the passion portray by the storm by having an affair with Alcee in her husband’s house; the romantic adventure …show more content…

And that is how Bobint and his son Bibi were left out side their home as the storm fury on. As stated earlier, the central metaphor of this story is “The Storm,” and “The storm” is use to illustrate the driven passion between Calixta any Alcee. The storm held Bobint and Bibi in Friedheimer’s store and also gives Alcee a great opportunity to enter into Bobint’s house and have a sexual intercourse with his wife Calixta. “He stayed cushioned upon her, breathless, dazed, enervated, with his heart beating like a hammer upon her” (Chopin). The storm is also use by chopin to demonstrate the starting, the climax, and the ending of the affair between the two main characters in the story. The storm on that faithful day symbolizes a vehicle through which their reunion establishes an adulterous romantic affair that left Calixta elated as Alcee ride away; “Calixta, on the gallery, watched Alce ride away. He turned and smiled at her with a beaming face; and she lifted her pretty chin in the air and laughed aloud” (Chopin). Calixta and Alcee regret nothing after their lustful affair with themselves as if the have been anticipating what happens between …show more content…

Calixrta’s passion for Alcee is so significant that she does not realize when she tremendously expresses her feelings for him. “The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached” (Chopin). Calixte’s love in the short story is like a two edge sword because she truly loves her husband and yet has a stronger lustful passion for Alcee as well. The love she has for Alcee empowered her to share desire and fulfillment without any argument because as the lightning raids the tree, Calixta staggers backward into Alcee’s arms as if a dream come

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