The Storm Analysis
In “The Storm”, Kate Chopin challenges the “Gilded Age” ideal of women. The Storm is a metaphor for the turmoil that Calixta goes through between her household duties and her inner passion. During the Victorian era women had the ideal image of a faithful housewife that would do anything to pleasure and fulfill their husband’s needs. The women would stay home cleaning and preparing everything to perfection for when the husband arrived home, once dinner was set and accepted to the husbands needs then the women would seduce to man in order to prevent them from betraying the family by committing an act of adultery (men were believed to have urges that the wife had to suppress).
The storm provides Calixta with an opportunity to bend from the Victorian era image and seek her “birthright” that Chopin describes in such powerful context. The setting of the storm with its mysterious and dim scenery, shield Calixta and Alcee from the world in order to......
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