Kate Chopin’s, “The Storm” begins with a storm rolling in around New Orleans, Louisiana. Calixta, seeing the storm coming, steps outside to take her husband and sons clothes off the clothesline and encounters her previous lover, Alcee, whom she invites in her home out of the elements. After she voiced her concern for her husband and son during the storm, lightening frightened Calixta, and she shared her fear of the house being hit by lightning, Alcee held her for comfort. They spoke of past times together, as it was, the feeling of comfort leads to more than talking between them. Little did she know that by opening her house for shelter from a storm of nature, Calixta, opened herself for a storm of passion. Chopin, uses imagery, phrases, and
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In “The Storm” the actions between Calixta and Alcee show passionate sensual feelings, “He stayed cushioned upon her, breathless, dazed, enervated, with his heart beating like a hammer upon her. With one hand she clasped his head, her lips lightly touching his forehead. The other hand stroked with a soothing rhythm his muscular shoulders.” (Chopin III), whereas, the actions between Calixta and Bobinot show love, concern and complacency “[Bobinot & Bibi] Then, prepared for the worst – meeting with an overscrupulous housewife, they entered cautiously at the back door. Calixta was preparing supper. She had set the table and was dripping coffee at the hearth. She sprang up as they came in… …Bobinôt's explanations and apologies which he had been composing all along the way, died on his lips as Calixta felt him to see if he were dry, and seemed to express nothing but satisfaction at their safe return” and “she gave him a smacking kiss on the cheek that resounded” (Chopin III). It is the first actions between Calixta and Bobinot that shows the change in her attitude from her day with Alcee. Bobinot was expecting her to be upset because of them being gone so long and coming home muddy, instead she is in the kitchen making dinner and preparing coffee, awaiting their
In “The Storm” the actions between Calixta and Alcee show passionate sensual feelings, “He stayed cushioned upon her, breathless, dazed, enervated, with his heart beating like a hammer upon her. With one hand she clasped his head, her lips lightly touching his forehead. The other hand stroked with a soothing rhythm his muscular shoulders.” (Chopin III), whereas, the actions between Calixta and Bobinot show love, concern and complacency “[Bobinot & Bibi] Then, prepared for the worst – meeting with an overscrupulous housewife, they entered cautiously at the back door. Calixta was preparing supper. She had set the table and was dripping coffee at the hearth. She sprang up as they came in… …Bobinôt's explanations and apologies which he had been composing all along the way, died on his lips as Calixta felt him to see if he were dry, and seemed to express nothing but satisfaction at their safe return” and “she gave him a smacking kiss on the cheek that resounded” (Chopin III). It is the first actions between Calixta and Bobinot that shows the change in her attitude from her day with Alcee. Bobinot was expecting her to be upset because of them being gone so long and coming home muddy, instead she is in the kitchen making dinner and preparing coffee, awaiting their