The Story Of An Hour And The Storm

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English 132 The Story of an Hour and The Storm: A look into determinism. Sometimes in life a man’s fate is determined or dictated by forces over which he has no control and of which he has little or no useful understanding. There are several categories of these natural forces to which we have come to know as determinism. No man can ever predict when these natural forces are going to occur but can certainly tell when they have came and left. It seems safe to say that most people will get an opportunity to experience determinism. Rather it be environmental, economic, or psychological determinism as expressed in the short story “The Storm”, or repression and social determinism likewise in “The Story of an Hour”, there is always an effect on determinism. When we think of the environment that we live in, we tend to think of the memories to come and the ones we’ve built thus far. Seldom do we think of natural forces waiting to abrupt as an effect of determinism. Take the example of the role determinism played on the environment in the story “The Storm”. Calixta’s husband Bobinot and son Bibi walked to Fredheimer’s to gather groceries. It just so happened that a storm formed causing the two to spend a great amount of time at the store until it was safe enough to leave. As the storm came, Calixta’s former love interest Alcee was approaching and asked to wait on her gallery until the storm passed. The two had not seen each other in years but yet, lived in the same town. This factor gives the reader a reason to imply that Calixta and Alcee were trying to avoid each other purposely. It seems easy to contradict that if the storm had not come, the two would have not seen or crossed each other’s paths. The environment in which they lived did not provide Alcee with a variety of places to wait the storm out because there was not an ample amount of houses or

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