Imagery in Chopin’s Storm and John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums

To continue In the novel “night” by ELIE WIESEL and the poem “SEE IT THROUGH” by Edgar Guest. the two authors use imagery is different because in the imagery in the poem is uplifting and the book is not it is love for example the poem says “lift your chin set your shoulders plant your feet and take a brace” but in the book the imagery is “I took his hand and kissed it” that is how the two authors use two different types of imagery.

Kate Chopin's story is set in Louisiana in the mid 1900s and in it she depicts the demonstration of affection and unfaithfulness. There are two individuals in a marriage and it is imperative for each gathering to feel adored, uncommon, and to get their coveted achievements. Chopin utilizes this story to delineate the energetic urges that a man can be overwhelmed with on the off chance that they are missing it in their own particular relationship. In the short story "The Storm," Chopin utilizes the abstract components imagery, perspective, and setting to uncover her point of view on the subject of marriage and satisfaction. Kate Chopin utilizes the moving toward storm as an image of bringing the primary characters back together. The two principle characters, whom are previous sweethearts are Calixta and Alcee. Alcee was happening upon Calixta's home amid the season of the tempest and needed to take shield in her home while it passed. The tempest is the most critical image in the story since it is depicted as the explanation behind bringing Alcee and Calixta back together. Alcee and Calixta had not seen each other "all the time since her marriage, and never alone" (Chopin 122) which made this moving toward storm extremely helpful for the two since her better half and child were held up at the store and Alcee's family was away.

Imagery allows the reader to hear and connect to the story by using onomatopoeia and see what is happening in the poem.

The short story, “The Storm,” can be classified as a story that is explicit of its kind because of its sexual and adulteress content. Although the story is portrayed as that, Chopin is able to bring about two parallel subjects to combine with each other to bring about one meaning that contributes to the subject as a whole. In the story, an affair occurs in the midst of a storm between Calixta and Alcee, two fond lovers that find each other once again and relive their

The theme adultery was first initiated when Alcee requested to reside in Calixta’s house till the rain passed. “His voice and her own startled her as if from a trance…”. Judging from the way they both reacted, it is clear that the two still have some sort of feelings for each other. Another aspect that leads to the feelings of both characters is when Chopin outlines the setting of the room they are in. “The door stood open, and the room with it’s white monumental bed, its closed shutters, looked dim and mysterious.” Already, the tone has changed becoming more tense and so has the storm as it beat upon the shingled roof with force like Chopin describes in the story. When Calixta realizes the storm has gotten worse, she then walks over to the window with a disturbed look on her face and Alcee of course follows behind her which proves that he wants to be around her. From the minute Alcee walks in, Calixta begins to show signs of nervousness which proves that he still has some affect on her. The tension of the rain and Calixta’s feelings both build up as it begins to rain harder, the winds blow harder and the lightening become stronger which symbolizes Calixta’s feelings at the moment. She tries to

   In Kate Chopin's time traditional patriarchal notions about women and sexuality deemed sexual passion a negligible, even improper, aspect of women's lives. Yet Chopin boldly addresses a woman's sexual desire in her short story "The Storm". This story shockingly details a torrid extramarital sexual encounter between Calixta and Alcee` in the midst of a raging storm. While this story line could have been presented in a traditional light, perhaps as a lesson about the evils of uninhibited female sexuality, Chopin maintains a non-judgmental stance by refraining from moralizing about the sanctity of marriage or impropriety of Calixta's actions. In failing to condemn and even

The short story, “The Storm” by Kate Chopin is about a love that could never be until it briefly was. The point that Chopin was trying to get across was that Calixta and Alcee had a strong passion for one-another, and perhaps loved each other, but they could never have been married because of their social differences. It is a passionate, but brief affair between two married people from different social classes that takes place during a cyclone in Louisiana around 1898. The story symbolizes the freedom that a woman felt inside after the rain during a time when women had no freedom. (Firtha lesson 2 page 1)

The main focus of this short story is desire. The desire shown by both Calixta and Alcée for each other is obvious. Many people during the time this short story was written would look at it as being “dirty” or filthy. They would look at the affair as being dishonest and unlawful; similar to the way that some of us today. However, the way Chopin expresses the affair is not at all a sense of guilty. She presences it as if it was something that happens often and that it is a natural thing that humans do. Sexual desire is a natural aspect of people’s lives. Even though she is a strong feminist, she does not limit these sexual desires to just the female character, Calixta. She also dives deep into the desires of a man as well. “Both males and females, she seems to tell us, are complex creatures whom have no choice but to discover their passion, in spite of risks, confusion, and guilt. (Bloom 81)”. According to Per Seyersted, “sex in this story is a force as strong, inevitable, and natural as the Louisiana storm which ignites it” (Koloski 145). She observes sex as being a natural thing that cannot be avoided in or outside of wedlock (Koloski 147). She writes as if this affair was unavoidable to the drives between the two characters.

The presence of Calixta's sexual desire and its intensity make this story revolutionary in its feminist statement about female sexuality. Chopin uses the conceit of a thunderstorm to describe the development, peak, and ebbing of passion in the encounter between Calixta and Alcee. At first, Calixta is unaware of the approaching storm, just as her sexual desire might be on an unconscious level; yet, as the storm approaches, Calixta grows warm and damp with perspiration. Chopin does the obvious by these two events when she writes that Calixta, "felt very warm . . . she unfastened her white saque at the throat. It began to grow dark and suddenly realizing the situation she got up and hurriedly went about closing windows and doors" (Part 2 Paragraph 1).

“The Storm” by Kate Chopin, was a writing that was ahead of it time. Kate wrote this short story in the late 1800’s when women had strict roles in society. This story is about two people who had an affair and lived life ever after with their spouses. When Calixta was first introduced in the story she was so consumed by washing and sewing that she didn’t know the storm was approaching. I believe this Introduction depicts the way we act in our lives. As humans we become confined in our daily routines that we begin to deny our inner most desires. According to Chopin’s, after Calixta has her affair/ or should I say after the storm passed, she felt rejuvenated, happy and refined. I’m not sure if this story is highlighting sexuality or cheating

Her sexuality has been repressed by the constraints of her marriage and society's view of women, represented by the housework being done before the storm hits. Chopin alludes to this theme of suppression again as Alcee is invited into Calixta's home. The author writes, 'Come 'long in, M'sieur Alcee. His voice and her own startled her as if from a trance, and she seized Bobinot's vest. Alcee, mounting to the porch, grabbed the trousers and snatched Bibi's braided jacket that was about to be carried away by a sudden gust of wind.'; Alcee grabs Bobinot's pants, symbolically subverting the social and martial constraints that control Calixta.

Story takes place within a society which morally cannot allow sharing of this type of an encounter with others. Both of the main characters are expected to continue their marital life and remain faithful to each owns family. In the story, the writer addresses the theme of womanhood and the complexities of the holy matrimony. The story is drawn to a close by this sentence, “So the storm passed and everyone was happy” (Chopin). This sentence reflects the relationship that Calixta and Bobinot share and provides us with a glimpse of the emotional bond the two of them have. The writer’s view is that a woman’s sexuality and her desires are suppressed by marriage, although sometimes that desire can be fulfilled without placing any type of damage on the relationship.

The conflict between love and lust begins with the contrast between one young man’s true love for Calixta and another’s lust. In the first story, Chopin introduces the reader to Bobinôt, an Acadian farmer, who is day dreaming about Calixta, the “Spanish vixen” (Chopin 1265). With a Cajun background, Bobinôt already possesses a social tension with Alcée, a wealthy Creole planter. Guarino comments on this cultural tension in her ethnic analysis: “Belonging mostly to the lower class, Cajuns have always had a conflict relation to the upper class formed mostly of Creoles” (7). Chopin displays this in the distaste Bobinôt mentally expresses towards Alcée in the first story “At the ‘Cadian Ball.” In addition to the social turmoil between the two men, Chopin further distinguishes between true love and lust by contrasting Bobinôt’s

“The Storm’s” theme was based on Love, Immoral affair, and Freedom. Chopin’s technique of foreshadowing, symbolism, irony, tone, and imagery set the plot for Alcee, Calixta, Bobinot, and Clarisse in this short story. “A bolt struck a tall chinaberry tree at the edge of the field. It filled all visible space with a blinding glare and crash seemed to invade the very boards they stood upon” (425). The writer used Imagery to depict how nature shook the foundation of their respective marriages. The significance of the tall chinaberry tree that crashed the boards was that it made Bobinot and Clarisse almost irrelevant in the story. The author used the metaphorical expression to indicate how the storm schemed Bobinot and Clarisse out of the reckoning.

In the short story “The Storm” by Kate Chopin, the main character Calixta is a wife and mother who appears to be unhappy and restless in her marriage and commits adultery. Calixta is able to fulfill her sexual desires with another man and does not feel guilty about it. Some readers may say that Calixta’s attitude on having an affair is selfish and most readers will not identify with the main character but may know characters that have Calixta’s mentality.