The Storm By Kate Chopin Literary Analysis

“The Storm” In every narrative, there are important elements that an author focuses and elaborate on in order to engage his or her readers. One of those elements is the setting of a story. Some may not realize how big a role the setting plays in every story. According, to X.J Kennedy and Dana Gioia, “the time and place in which a story is set server more than mere backdrop. A particular setting can create a mood or provide clues to a character’s nature. Setting can play as large a role as plot and characters do by prompting a protagonist or antagonist into an action he or she might not otherwise undertake. For example, Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” was a story that took place during a ravaging storm. The storm was indeed central to all the events

During that time period, women were very much covered up and were not permitted to show too much skin for fear they may seduce other males if she shows too much of their body. However, because the storm was getting ready to begin, the humidity became too much for Calixta to handle as she worked at her sewing machine so she removed the sacque. Calixta, surprisingly, was not aware of the storm until the rain was ready to fall. “Calixta, at home, felt no uneasiness for their safety. She sat at a side window sewing furiously on a sewing machine. She was greatly occupied and did not notice the approaching storm. But she felt very warm and often stopped to mop her face on which the perspiration gathered in beads. She unfastened her white sacque at the throat. It began to grown dark, and suddenly realizing the situation she got up hurriedly and went about closing the windows and doors,” (Chopin 122). In that scene, it was revealed that Calixta was not as aware of her surroundings as she should have been. Before any storm, there are warning signs such as an increase in the speed of winds and the smell of rain water that will soon be making its way to the earth’s surface. Calixta was sitting next to a window and was not at all attentive to what Mother Nature was soon to unleash on her town. Moreover, that scene showed how hardworking of a woman she was. If a

That event showed how the storm forced her to go outdoors. The storm gave her no choice but to go outside and get her husband’s good clothing to bring back into their