Passionate Storms
Judy Dear
March 17, 2000
Critical Essay III
English 1123C
Passionate Storms
Kate Chopin's "The Storm", is a story filled with metaphorical references between a thunderstorm of rain and a thunderstorm of passion. Calixta, Bobinot, and Bibi led, what one would assume to be, a rather normal life. While Bobinot and Bibi are in town shopping they notice a storm approaching, and "Bobinot, who was accustomed to converse on terms of perfect equality with his little son, called the child's attention to certain sombre clouds that were rolling with sinister intention from the west, accompanied by a sullen, threatening roar." However, a moment a Mother Nature's fury unleashed a wealth of passion between Calixta and her former beau Alcee Laballiere.
Calixta was at home sewing while Bobinot and Bibi were at Friedheimer's store, and she did not realize that a serious, yet pleasurable, storm was fast approaching. Once she noticed that it was getting darker she quickly set about......
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