Line Between Sex And Love In The Storm By Kate Chopin

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The Storm Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” relates the story of an affair. In it Kate Chopin delineates a view of human sexuality and love which would still be controversial today. “The Storm” draws a clear line between sex and love, one does not necessarily connect to the other and the forced connection, once severed, allows for happiness to be realized. It begins with Bibi (son) and Bobinot (father) at the general store. An ideal achieved is clearly established immediately with the line “Bobinot, who was accustomed to converse on terms of perfect equality with his little son”. Bibi is only four years old, yet he is described as wise, speaks little, and seems self-assured. A perfect son as a contemporary might say. The easy relationship with his …show more content…
Our hero, sewing away at her machine does not notice the storm at first. She unfastened her white sacque as she is feeling rather hot and bothered. Sexual innuendo pervades this particular section for obvious reasons. In this case it represents her sexual frustration at the monotony of contemporary womanhood. Sat at a table working a sewing machine, left unaware of the world around her until it is all but on top of her. Compared to her son and husband who see the storm coming from some distance off. As the storm arrives, she must care for the house and while grabbing the husband’s Sunday clothes from the front gallery she sees Alcee (the well hewn hunk of man meat with which she has a previous relationship) coming towards the house. He is the neighbor and could not reach his farm before the storm. Initially, being the gentlemanly type he intends to stay outside; the rain proves far too powerful though and he enters Calixta’s veritable prison of domesticity. The house confines her sexuality but not her love. Her love is quite clearly expressed in section three. The sexual prison has crack in it from which fluid is coming in, or out of. Alcee helps stuff the crack. The sexual implications may speak for themselves but, if I might, a wet crack filled with the assistance of a man bears distinct similarities to …show more content…
It is Calixta’s lust, such as when it is raining on the house trying to get in. Her lustful nature, that is the storm, is what separates her from her family and once it is dealt with she can be satisfied with a loving husband that remembers that she likes shrimp. It is something normally kept in, making her hot and red. Even choking her as she unfastens the sacque around her throat earlier in the story. When Alcee first arrives is when it starts to rain big drops. The storm darkens the bedroom, making it “dim and mysterious.” So they enter into a place that is mysterious to the both of

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