Storms of Life
Kate Chopin, the author of “The Storm”, describes how real storms symbolize the storms in our lives. Like a storm, the main character Calixta is quiet, calm, and unthreatening to man. But as her passion and the storm began to brew, they became electric and powerful. In Chopin’s time it was rarely acknowledged that women had any sexual desires at all. Women were innocent when it came to this matter. Men were known to stray from their marriages to fulfill their sexual desire, but never a woman. Sexual desire was something only experienced by men. Not only did Chopin recognize that women had these desires, she glorified it and spoke with openness about human sexuality. Chopin explains in her short story how all the events of the storm lead up to an affair between a man and a woman who both seem to be happily married. Chopin tells the story as if what the two lovers did was morally acceptable. Every character at the end of the story was happy, even though the ex-lovers had an affair. The beginning of the storm sets the scene for the beginning of the affair. When the storm breaks loose, so does the passion between the two ex-lovers, and when the storm dies down the two people part and everyone is happy
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Approximate Word count = 1006
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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