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A 4 page essay that summarizes and analyzes Kate Chopin’s short story “The Storm.” The writer first discusses how Chopin’s perspective differed from the stereotype for women prevalent in the 19th century, which pictures women as asexual. The writer than explains that Chopin wrote stories containing overt sensuality, in which she pictured women as sexual beings and sex as a natural part of all human behavior, male and female. Chopin’s “The Storm” illustrates this point. No additional sources cited.
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late nineteenth century was a period that was extremely patriarchal and which pictured upper class women as having sexual relations as part of their "duty" to their husbands. Supposedly, on
her wedding night, Queen Victoria advised her daughter to "close her eyes and think of England." In other words, to endure sex for the sake of her country. The story
is probably apocryphal, but it nevertheless typifies Victorian attitudes concerning female sexuality. Countering this popular paradigm, Chopin wrote stories containing overt sensuality, in which she pictured women as sexual beings
and sex as a natural part of all human behavior, male and female. Chopins "The Storm" illustrates this point. In the opening paragraphs of this short story, the perspective
is that of Bobinot, father, who is waiting out a storm at Friedheimers store with his four-year son, Bibi. The French name and Chopins use of dialect in recounting their
conversation indicates that the setting of the story is Louisiana. Father and son discuss the boys mother, Bibinots wife, and how she will worry and the father purchases a can
of shrimps, which is a favorite food of his wife, Calixta. The perspective then switches to that of Calixta, who is, as predicted, concerned about her husband and son.
A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so violent that "water
beat in upon the boards in driving sheets" (Chopin). In order to escape the rain, Alcee must enter the house. He reassures Calixta that "Bobinots got sense enough to come
in out of a cyclone" (Chopin). Still worried, Calixta moves to a window and Alcee joins her. A bolt of lightning strikes "a tall chinaberry tree at the edge of
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