Although the story, The Storm, refers to the cyclone storm happening outside while Calixta and Alcee are performing the act of adultery. It could be foreshadowing the up coming events in the future, between the happy marriages of Calixta with Bobinot and Alcee with Clarissa. The act of adultery will catch up with them and tear their marriages apart; adultery is a sin. Chopin may portray women seeking sexual and professional independence, she is showing sins of society; things women should not do because it’s wrong. Chopin’s stories of adultery stirred up the critics in the 19th century because they were stories of sin.
Chopin decided to portray women committing adultery, which is sin, and make it seem ok to commit sin. In her story, The Storm, Chopin portrays Calixta
Chopin’s attempt to bring adultery into the 19th century was a bad idea because critics refused to see her view points on women and what women want. Although critics didn’t publish anymore of her works, years later; Chopin’s stories make useful arguments discussing what Chopin is really trying to tell the reader or what the reader interprets it to be.
Why did Chopin decide to write stories of women committing the act of adultery? Doesn’t she realize that within a marriage, adultery is a sin? Or Chopin realizes that adultery is a sin and wants the readers to know that adultery is happening? There are many questions about Chopin’s stories because her published work were neglected and censored. The middle-class took her stories of adultery and thought it to be ver