Symbolism In The Storm And At The Cadian Ball

“The storm”, written by Kate Chopin, is a premature sequel to “At the Cadian Ball”. “At the Cadian Ball” involved many of the characters to “The storm” which were Calixta, Bobinôt, and Alicée. In “At the Cadian Ball”, Alicée and Calixta were together at the time in a place called Assumption. Then comes Bobinôt out of nowhere and proposes to Calixta, who have been married ever since. “The storm” is kind of what happens after that event, but not technically because the proposal happened a year before. I am guessing that this story takes place a few months after the actually ceremony for the weeding. The themes of this story are sex and broken marriages, as well as how the storm is symbolic to some of the character’s lives. During the late 19th and early 20th century stories about sex were tolerated, but people would begin to question your actual life. Which is why the story was published almost 70 years from when it was written. The purpose was to protect herself from the people that would have purchased the book. According to www.eurekalert.org, erotic sex books were very common …show more content…
The storm passing by symbolizes that there is a good and bad side of this event. The good side is that Alicée will get away with having sex with Claxita without Bobinôt knowing. The bad side is that the marriage is slowly deteriorating and obviously Claxita just had an affair. Once Bobinôt and Bibi return home, Bobinôt starts to apologize for coming home late, but Claxita does not care at all because she just had apparently good sex and it looks like it has been awhile since that has happened. Also, Alicée was planning on having some type of meeting with Claxita again because he told his wife, Clarisse that she should stay on her vacation. Clarisse is thinking that is good for a marriage to have some alone time with yourself, but it was the complete opposite for