The Role Of Cheating Wife In Chopin's The Storm

Although “The Storm” is told from a third person omniscient point of view, “The Adulterous Wife” is told from the first person peripheral point of view. “The Adulterous Wife” is a poem that tells a story of a married woman that cheats on her husband from an overseer’s point of view. The wife is a static character and does not change throughout the poem. McClave depicts a flash back to inform readers she has done this before and does not plan on changing: “She lies and cheats and do the sins that she shouldn’t, Sadly though, this isn’t the first time for this woman; As in her past she has done this all before; Sadly her husband didn’t know, that he had married a whore.” Similarly in Chopin’s “The Storm”, Clarisse is unaware that her spouse is an unfaithful man as he sends her letters stating how much he loves and misses her: “As for Clarisse, she was charmed upon receiving her husband’s letter. She and the babies were doing well. Devoted as she was to her husband, their intimate conjugal life was something which she …show more content…
McClave also uses a flash forward to give readers an image of the cheating wife’s consequential future for her children: “And when her daughters get older and they feel the strife; I wander if they will be like their mother, the adulterous wife.” Because of the wife’s mistakes, sins, and obvious internal conflicts the poem closes by negatively describing the cheating woman’s life: “And she’ll keep her lies from yesterday unto today; And while she sins, other men lay down to pray; How sad it is to live that type of sinful life; But this is the true story of the Adulterous wife." Readers have come to find the reason behind cheating is unknown. Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” is a story featuring two oblivious couples that have no idea their spouse is cheating on them. Similarly, Randy McClave’s Poem “The Adulterous Wife” is a poem about an