... way that a thunderstorm is like the good and bad times in a person's life. She uses the beginning of the storm to describe the feelings, the climax of the storm to describe the temptations, and thunder and lightning of the storm to describe the deception of a young housewife and mother in the late 1800's. In the beginning like a storm, Calixta is quiet, calm, and unthreatening ... Calixta and Alcee. No one ever knows how much damage it really causes until it's all over. In the story Chopin makes the reader think that there isn't any damage done. Luckily, in this case there wasn't much d...

• Word Count: 838
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School