Romantic Themes In The Storm By Kate Chopin

Interestingly, an author by the name of Kate Chopin, wrote a very intoxicatingly romantic short story called “The Storm”. Furthermore, a few interesting themes introduced in “The Storm” include: passion, adultery, and safety. Firstly, an interesting theme introduced in this seductive short story, is passion. Furthermore, Chopin writes about how Alcee could not contain himself around Calixta. Thusly, in “The Storm”, it shows Alcee’s lack of control by stating “The contact of her warm, palpitating body when he had unthinkingly drawn her into his arms, had aroused all the old-time infatuation and desire for her flesh” (89). Nevertheless, Alcee took it a step further, and placed a kiss on her red and moist lips; stated by the quote “He looked