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Kate Chopin's 'The Storm': Quick Summary and Analysis
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he storm parallels Calixta and Alcée passion and affair in its rising intensity, climax, and conclusion. Like a thunderstorm, Chopin suggests that their affair is intense, but also potentially destructive and passing. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, any written work that was sexual was not consid
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- he storm parallels Calixta and Alcée passion and affair in its rising intensity, climax, and conclusion. Like a thunderstorm, Chopin suggests that their affair is intense, but also potentially destructive and passing.
- In the late 1800s and early 1900s, any written work that was sexual was not considered respectable by societal standards.
- "The Storm" goes to show that just because it was not written about does not mean sexual desire and tension did not occur in everyday people's lives during that time period.
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