The Perfect Setting
When telling a story how do you start? Do you jump right into the main events, or do you lay out the setting for the person to get a mental image of the action taking place? The setting plays a major aspect to a story, it can become boring if you do not understand the time, place, or atmosphere the story took place in. In Kate Chopin’s short story, The Storm the setting plays a major role. The setting portrays more than where The Storm takes place, the atmosphere, weather, and the time are crucial to the piece of work.
Chompin gives in vital insight to where the story takes place. The face that she first informs us that the husband, Bobinôt, and the child, Bibi, are at a store in the town. This allows her readers to understand …show more content…
Kennedy & Dana Gioia 102). In The Storm, the atmosphere is described threw the similarities of the feelings in the room as Calixta and Alcée Laballière are together with the storm that is raging outside of the house. Chopin describes how the air outside is hot and steamy just before the two begin the two begin to have a passionate moment, “She wiped the frame that was clouded with moisture (X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia 106). In another instance of the story Chopin describes, “The growl of the thunder was distant and passing away” (X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia 108). This implies that as the storm was ending so too was their moment of love. While the weather has a lot to do with the atmosphere of this piece of work, weather is another factor that has a lot to do with the setting of a …show more content…
The story takes place in the time frame of a thunderstorm, that creates the atmosphere and weather of the story. Calixta and Alcée Laballière’s affair takes place under the same time frame that it takes the storm to blow through the area. Chopin uses this because it keeps the husband and child away from the home as they sit through the storm at the town store. The use of the storm is also implied as important because Chopin implies that the affairs take place in a short period of time likely just an hour or a little more. In one instance in the story time is used as a refrence to a time when Calixta and Alcée Laballière’s knew each other from a previous engagement, “Do you remember – in Assumption, Calixta,” (X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia 107)? This gives you the information of the pervious time they had spent together in their pasts. Chopin gives us a time from when the husband and child leave the storm too. With this information a reader can gather that Calxtia has time to get Alcée Laballière out of the home and have time to start dinner before her family gets
When telling a story how do you start? Do you jump right into the main events, or do you lay out the setting for the person to get a mental image of the action taking place? The setting plays a major aspect to a story, it can become boring if you do not understand the time, place, or atmosphere the story took place in. In Kate Chopin’s short story, The Storm the setting plays a major role. The setting portrays more than where The Storm takes place, the atmosphere, weather, and the time are crucial to the piece of work.
Chompin gives in vital insight to where the story takes place. The face that she first informs us that the husband, Bobinôt, and the child, Bibi, are at a store in the town. This allows her readers to understand …show more content…
Kennedy & Dana Gioia 102). In The Storm, the atmosphere is described threw the similarities of the feelings in the room as Calixta and Alcée Laballière are together with the storm that is raging outside of the house. Chopin describes how the air outside is hot and steamy just before the two begin the two begin to have a passionate moment, “She wiped the frame that was clouded with moisture (X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia 106). In another instance of the story Chopin describes, “The growl of the thunder was distant and passing away” (X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia 108). This implies that as the storm was ending so too was their moment of love. While the weather has a lot to do with the atmosphere of this piece of work, weather is another factor that has a lot to do with the setting of a …show more content…
The story takes place in the time frame of a thunderstorm, that creates the atmosphere and weather of the story. Calixta and Alcée Laballière’s affair takes place under the same time frame that it takes the storm to blow through the area. Chopin uses this because it keeps the husband and child away from the home as they sit through the storm at the town store. The use of the storm is also implied as important because Chopin implies that the affairs take place in a short period of time likely just an hour or a little more. In one instance in the story time is used as a refrence to a time when Calixta and Alcée Laballière’s knew each other from a previous engagement, “Do you remember – in Assumption, Calixta,” (X.J. Kennedy & Dana Gioia 107)? This gives you the information of the pervious time they had spent together in their pasts. Chopin gives us a time from when the husband and child leave the storm too. With this information a reader can gather that Calxtia has time to get Alcée Laballière out of the home and have time to start dinner before her family gets