The Theme of Kate Chopin's "The Storm"

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Alfred Ojediran 056629132 Professor Danicki EAC 150BC The theme of Kate Chopin’s “The Storm’ In Kate Chopin’s short story “The storm”, we see the author describe the feminine repression set by the constraint of the society through the treatment of adultery. The story starts with Bobinὂt and Bibi at the store, waiting for the storm to start. Bobinot decides to buy a can of shrimps, which are a form of natural aphrodisiac, while the storm starts and “it shook the wooden store and seemed to be ripping great furrows in the distance field” (paragraph five). The second part of the story starts with Calixta at home waiting for her husband Bobinot and her young son Bibi. She decides to run out and gather the clothes outside before the storm starts when she sees Alcee Laballiere riding his horse and seeking for shelter from the storm. As she invites him in, “Alcee, mounting the pouch, grabbed the trousers and snatched Bibi’s branded jacket that was about to be carried away by a sudden gust of wind” (paragraph ten). When Alcee and Calixta enter the house, Alcee sees Calixta’s bedroom, “The door stood open, and the room with its white, monumental bed, its closed shutters, looked dim and mysterious” (paragraph thirteen). We note that the white in this expression represents purity. In paragraph nineteen, “the rain was coming down in sheets obscuring the view of far-off cabins and enveloping the distant wood in gray mist” (paragraph nineteen), this implies the storm is giving them privacy to do whatever they want. In paragraph twenty, the first physical contact between them happens when a lightning bolt struck a tree nearby and Alcee spasmodically draws Calixta closer to him and “the contact of her warm, palpitating body when he had unthinkably drawn her into his arms, had aroused all the old time infatuation and desire for her flesh” (paragraph twenty one). In
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