The Storm Literary Analysis

In the story "The Storm", Kate Chopin plots a situation in which two people surrender to their physical desires. Chopin wrote fiction stories in the late 19th century. She was condemned due to the immorality presented in her work. At her times, woman was considered to be very innocent, and always faithful to her husband. In Chopin's work one sees a totally different view of a woman's behavior. She is not a popular writer of her era because of her crude works; the audience of her period could not justify her stories. In the story "the storm", Kate Chopin by hiding the immoral behavior of her characters behind the fear of bad weather is being ironic.

Haruki Murakami said, “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” This quote is shown throughout Kate Chopin’s story “The Storm”. This story is about two families who are having problem in their relationships. Calixta and Alcee are past lovers and rekindle their love, which actually seems to improve their relationships with their spouses. The feelings between Calixta and Alcee only faded, never fully went away. They do not treat sex and love the same. Their attitudes towards their spouses and families changed. Desire stormed through their lives just like the storm raged through

The story begins when Bobinot and his son Bibi are at Fregheimer’s store and decide to stay there due to a storm that is coming. Meanwhile, Bobinot’s wife, Calixta, is at home. Calixta is a blonde woman with blue eyes. Calixta does not see the storm coming, but she felt a very warm (Chopin 122). She starts closing all the doors and windows; she goes outside to gather the clothes she hung before. She sees Alcee, who asks for shelter because of the storm approaching. Calixta gives him some shelter and the storm arrives. They have to stuck clothes underneath the door to avoid the water getting into the house. The storm is scares Calixta and Alcee is there next to her in her room. Calixta frightened hugs Alcee. Alcee kisses Calixta and he says “do toy remember-in Assumption, Calixta?” The storm had trapped them into the house and its magnificence took them to the bedroom where they now seem pushed into each other arms and then onto bed. After the affair and the storm had passed Calixta sees her lover to leave the scene and ride away (Chopin 123). After the storm Calixta turns from a lover to a lovely mother

Kate Chopin's  "The Storm" focuses on two simultaneous and related storms, one a fierce tempest of the natural world with the expected rain, wind, lightening, and thunder, the other a cyclone of the mind and heart which results in an short love affair between the two main characters. With her husband Bobinot and her son Bibi stranded in town by the storm, Calixta finds herself at home alone when an old lover, Alcee, rides up. The storm, the worst in two years, drives the two indoors, where, though they have not met in five years, they soon are embracing each other. As the storm outside reaches a climax, the emotions in the house spike to a fever pitch, and, though not directly

This very sexual and sensual story was written so well. Chopin not only used a great plot, and great language, but she had the perfect setting for her story. She shows how the worst things can sometimes be the best. She wants her readers to understand that something “morally wrong” is not always bad. The affair changed Calixta’s relationship with her family for the better. Like the storm, it may have seemed bad at first, but when it was over it left her a brighter, happier, and more devoted mother and wife. “The storm passed, and everyone was happy (Chopin 156).”

Lust and love are very different things, but they are commonly confused. Kate Chopin’s “At the ‘Cadian Ball” and “The Storm” are set in the nineteenth century Louisiana. Although they both have the same main characters, the two stories are mainly about Alcee and Calixta’s relationship with one another. These stories are centered on Calixta and her confusion over her feelings for Alcée, but in the end love conquers.

In “The Storm,” by Kate Chopin, wife and mother, Calixta, is separated from her family, who is away during a nasty storm. Left alone in her household with an old love who was strayed inside by the storm, old flames between the two rekindle. The storm that is present throughout the story acts as a symbolic element that helps convey the story in a representational way.

Chopin uses the storm to imitate two separate meanings; she does this by using imagery. One meaning is the denotation, the actual storm happening in the story, and the second being the connotation, the building tension between the characters Calixta and Alcee. At the beginning of the story, the storm has just started to roll in, and Alcee needs to find shelter. He asks Calixta if he can come into her home and she says yes. Though this is a small act that seems harmless, to let another man into your home does not follow the ideal image of a woman. A woman should be domestic, this includes keeping the home for the family. Calixta lets Alcee come in, however. By doing so she resists being a true woman.

Kate Chopin’s short story “The Storm” describes an encounter of infidelity between two lovers during a brief thunderstorm. The story alludes to the controversial topic of women’s sexuality and passion, which during Chopin’s time no one spoke about much less wrote about. So controversial was “The Storm,” that it was not published until after her death in eighteen ninety-nine. The story is broken up into five sections, each filled with small clues and hints that reflect her message. In short, Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” is about a confirmation of feminine sexuality and passion and a rejection of the suppression of it by society.

The storm serves as a parallel to the passion between Alcee and Calixta. The storm is unavoidable and so is the passion because of it. When the storm forces them into each other's arms, the familiarity with their previous lives takes over and they begin having an affair (97). The storm ending at the same time as the passion, implies that they are parallel with each other. Just as the storm is a passing event that changes nature for a short time, so the affair is passing and changes the emotions of Alcee and Calixta. A storm leaves the world peaceful, bright and clean. The author portrays the affair as leaving their family relationships peaceful and full of new joy. With the last line of the story, "So the storm passed and everyone was happy," (99) Chopin compares the storm's outcome with that of the affair.

In a rejection of shame and guilt for her infidelity, Calixta appears to be unfazed and even happy after her recent encounter with Alcee. This lack of guilt and shame reinforces the outdated ideal of monogamy, as Calixta has merely been allowed to embrace true passion outside of the oppressive institution of Victorian marriage. This is one reason why remorse no longer plays a part in her behaviors, as the symbolic “storm” reveals the powerful impulses of sexuality that overrode her domestic obligations: “So the storm passed and every one was happy” (Chopin, 1898, para.39). In this manner, the sexual liberation of Calixta becomes the focal point in which sexuality is naturally expressed without the presence of a Victorian conscience: “Sex in this story is a force as strong, inevitable, and natural as the Louisiana storm that ignites it” (Seyersted, 2000, p.166). In this sexual perspective, Chopin ends the story on a positive note, especially in the case of Calixta’s freedom to pursue her won sexual passions without being hindered by oppression marital standards of the Victorian

The story of “The Storm” has a very deep meaning behind it. It’s about a family who is separated by a storm for a small amount of time and it leads to the wife, Calixta, cheating on her family and showing no regrets of the fact. Kate Chopin in her story “The Strom” uses imagery to demonstrate the relationship between the storm and the characters themselves.

Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” suggests, through the use of characterization, climax, and tone, that affairs (and storms) are not only terrifying, but liberating. She demonstrates that the storm which rages within us can be particularly greater than actual events it self. As the storm is just about to arrive, so too does Alcée. So, in many ways the storm mirrors the passionate encounter between Calixta and Alcée because that is when Calixta and Alcée once again get comfortable with each other and end up sleeping together. As the storm passes and the calm returns, Alcée leaves Calixta’s home returning to his home leaving behind a “calm” Calixta. It is interesting that rather than having an expected negative effect on their marriages, the affair appears to have actually brought them closer to their spouses. This is significant because Chopin is exploring the idea of marriage or at

"The Storm" by Kate Chopin melds the theme of romantic love with those of rebellion and conformity. In the story, Chopin gives readers an account of a meteorological disturbance that sweeps through a town, leaving a family to seek shelter until the storms passing. The wife of the story Calixta is at the family's home while her husband Bobint and child Bibi are seeking refuge at Friedheimer's store. Deeply concerned for his mother Bibi begins to question and seek reassurance for Calixta's safety from his father. Bibi implores by saying, "Mama'll be 'fraid, yes, he suggested with blinking eyes"(1). His father attempts to reassure him stating "She'll shut the house. Maybe she got Sylvie helpin' her this evenin' " (1). Bibi knew differently, but at last, settles and he is comforted by his father's unwavering confidence in Calixta's safety. While readers are preoccupied with the storm and the uncertainty it holds, Kate Chopin begins to scribe an unending metaphor that carries the entire plot of the story. Calixta goes out to gather Bobint's Sunday clothes before the rain starts and to her surprise, Alce Laballire comes riding up. Calixta is nervous with Alce in the house, she stands at the window gazing out while making small talk with him. Lightning strikes and Calixta grabs her eyes and stumbles backward where Alce's arms are waiting. The tension between the two has built, when Calixta staggers back from the window the passage states that "Alce's arm encircled her, and for an

“The Storm” Analysis As the storm gets stronger and more severe, so do Calixta and Alcee's emotions for each other showing their desire. The storm represents the character's passion and as it gets strong their desire for one another increases. In the beginning when Calixta and Alcee first see each other the storm is not too bad as it is just beginning: “She stood there with Bobinot ’s coat in her hands and the big rain drops began to fall” (Chopin). Only moments pass by and the tension between Alcee and Calixta is getting stronger and so does the storm.