When two people get married, couples have a strong relationship with each other and live on because of one thing, honesty. Looking at the marriage relationships in the play Trifles by Susan Glaspell and the short story The Storm by Kate Chopin, someone can scrutinize that there are reasons to compare why the wives can be both can be dishonest or ambiguous with their respective spouse that leads to a dysfunctional relationship. In The Storm, the protagonist Calixta is shown to be a hard working wife that hides her secret when her husband and child are out of the house, only when they are home she acts like she is happy that they are there. As, for the play Trifles, the drama displayed between Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters displays the power of
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In the story the main character Calixta is a working mother with a husband and 4-year old child. Calixta lives in Louisiana during the late 19th century Victorian Era where women have no right to certain things like owning property. “The Storm” literally is a phase in the Story where Calixta and her lover Alcée have sexual intercourse. A “Storm” is usually a strong force of nature that causes some sort of disturbance or controversy such as lightning and rumbling. When the lightning struck near the tree of Calixta’s house, she was startled by the sound and was frightened and gets into the arms of Alcée. In the story Alcée says to Calixta in seductive tone “Do you remember—in Assumption, Calixta?” After this physical contact, the two start their romance which the affair or “The Storm” is taking place. Analyst Joanna Bartee says that Chopin’s work is a reference to its title “The Storm” as a force of nature. The nature is the desire to have sex and feel a type of fulfillment in a woman’s own sexual pleasure. So, as a part of human nature, humans have desires and needs that need to be filled in order to feel that something in life is accomplished. Because Calixta is a stay at home mother, she doesn’t feel that her current relationship with her husband Bobinot is satisfying, and that she has this sexual …show more content…
In Trifles, the word “trifles” literally means something of no value or less importance. In the Wright’s home there are items that Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are looking at that items and things may not seem important at all, but in reality they can be useful in some way to help solve the murder case. The sewing box may look like just a box sitting around, but when it was opened they found the bird that the Wright’s owned dead with its neck snapped. This would have been a big deal in the crime scene case, but the women do their best of concealing what would have been proof against Mr. Wright as Mrs. Hale said “he wouldn’t like the bid- a thing that sang.” Ironically the way the bird died and Mr. Wright died was almost the same way. Although the murderer of Mr. Wright isn’t told, one can contemplate that maybe because the bird was killed, Mrs. Wright did the same with her husband, but in a more lethal fashion by putting her husband in a noose along the bed. In The Storm, there is literally a storm going on in the setting. This storm is the also the personification of Calixta; freighted, worried, and has sex during the storm. When the storm is over, it is sunny and Calixta is happy again for the nice weather. Because the time frames were the late 19th and 20th century, we see how the authors show what it’s like to be a women during that time frame. Both the women in
In the story the main character Calixta is a working mother with a husband and 4-year old child. Calixta lives in Louisiana during the late 19th century Victorian Era where women have no right to certain things like owning property. “The Storm” literally is a phase in the Story where Calixta and her lover Alcée have sexual intercourse. A “Storm” is usually a strong force of nature that causes some sort of disturbance or controversy such as lightning and rumbling. When the lightning struck near the tree of Calixta’s house, she was startled by the sound and was frightened and gets into the arms of Alcée. In the story Alcée says to Calixta in seductive tone “Do you remember—in Assumption, Calixta?” After this physical contact, the two start their romance which the affair or “The Storm” is taking place. Analyst Joanna Bartee says that Chopin’s work is a reference to its title “The Storm” as a force of nature. The nature is the desire to have sex and feel a type of fulfillment in a woman’s own sexual pleasure. So, as a part of human nature, humans have desires and needs that need to be filled in order to feel that something in life is accomplished. Because Calixta is a stay at home mother, she doesn’t feel that her current relationship with her husband Bobinot is satisfying, and that she has this sexual …show more content…
In Trifles, the word “trifles” literally means something of no value or less importance. In the Wright’s home there are items that Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are looking at that items and things may not seem important at all, but in reality they can be useful in some way to help solve the murder case. The sewing box may look like just a box sitting around, but when it was opened they found the bird that the Wright’s owned dead with its neck snapped. This would have been a big deal in the crime scene case, but the women do their best of concealing what would have been proof against Mr. Wright as Mrs. Hale said “he wouldn’t like the bid- a thing that sang.” Ironically the way the bird died and Mr. Wright died was almost the same way. Although the murderer of Mr. Wright isn’t told, one can contemplate that maybe because the bird was killed, Mrs. Wright did the same with her husband, but in a more lethal fashion by putting her husband in a noose along the bed. In The Storm, there is literally a storm going on in the setting. This storm is the also the personification of Calixta; freighted, worried, and has sex during the storm. When the storm is over, it is sunny and Calixta is happy again for the nice weather. Because the time frames were the late 19th and 20th century, we see how the authors show what it’s like to be a women during that time frame. Both the women in