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In the story as a whole, how do setting and plot reinforce each other?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What general attitudes toward sex, love, and marriage does Chopin imply?Cite evidence to support your answer.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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  • The setting of The Storm provides its most powerful unifying element. The Storm, of course, features a literal storm that is so severe that it isnt safe for Bobint and Bibi to travel home. The powerful wind shakes both Friedheimers store and Calixtas house, and the strong rains make the roads so muddy that Bobint uses a stick to get the dried mud off his four-year-old son.



The raging storm provides Alce with a legitimate excuse to seek shelter at the home of his former love, Calixta. The storm not only affects the situation of each character, it also reflects the tempestuous inner states of Alce and Calixta, who find themselves unexpectedly alone. Their passionate adultery is supremely satisfying the classic Chopin touch that outraged her contemporaries.

Answer to Question 2


  • Calixta is queen of the domestic sphere: she is so preoccupied with her sewing that she barely notices the impending storm, and then she hurries to gather Bobints Sunday clothes before the rain falls. Calixta worries about her husbands safetyand especially her sonsafter she sees a lightning bolt strike a chinaberry tree. Even after her encounter with Alce, Calixta seems genuinely glad to be reunited with her husband and son when they return home. But passions, Chopin seems to say, cannot be denied. Their force is equal to that of a storm, and the marriage bed is not the likeliest place for the release of that force. Indeed, the author hints that marriage and sexual pleasure are incompatible in Parts IV and V of the story, where Alce urges his absent wife to stay away another month and where we learn that for Clarisse, their intimate conjugal life was something which she was more than willing to forgo for a while.




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