Biibi And The Electer's Store By Kate Chopin

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Reading this short fiction story for the first time had me confused, until I read it the second time that’s when my eyes were wide open and surprised how Calixta and her ex-lover got away with having sex without their wife or husband finding out. I think this short story relates to how cheating and having hidden affairs still happens now in modern life, thus the characters kept the plot of the story on my edge of my seat. I was thinking her husband Bobinot and their son Bibi were going to catch her and her ex-lover on the scene while having intercourse.
This fiction story was written by Kate Chopin in 1898. It began when there was a “threatening storm.” Bibi and his father Bobinot were at “Freidheimer’s store” which leads for them to stay at

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