In Kate Chopin’s story “The Storm,” the main character Calixta is faced with a very tricky situation which is being locked in her home alone with her former lover for the first time since they both married. While she is worried about her husband and son who are out in the storm, she is intrigued in re-kindling her old flame. However, Calixta’s husband is worried that she will be angry that they took shelter from the storm at Friedhemer’s, he brings her home a can of shrimp. She on the contrary was not angry because of the company from her old flame, Alcee, her mind so distracted that she did not have the time to become angry.
2. “A Worn Path”- Protagonist: Phoenix Jackson, Antagonist: The hunter, Point of view: 3rd person limited, Setting: Late 1930s during the Christmas season in Natchez Trace Mississippi. …show more content…
The hunter that she meets half way through her journey tries to convince her to turn back, to go home and forget about the medicine. He tells Phoenix that it is too long of a trek for the old “Granny. . . [that] must be a hundred years old. . .” (91). However, she prevails continuing her journey to save her grandson’s life because family is more important than any obstacle that she would have to