liberation

“The Storm” and “The Story of an Hour” expresses the attitudes of two women’s

rebirth and liberation. These two stories are alike in several ways. Natures plays a major

role in both of these women’s lives. Calixta and Mrs. Louise Mallard struggle to find

their independence and in doing so the endings are triumphant and tragic.

“The Storm” begins on a stormy spring day, with the protagonist Calixta at her sewing machine. She is alone, her husband Bobinot and son Bibi have gone to the store. Calixta seems to be a bored woman, confined to her duties as a housewife and mother. As the distant storm approaches she is unaware of what the storm brings, her former lover Alcee. Calixta allows Alcee into her home and opens her whole world to him. There is a connection between the storm that is going on outside and the storm of emotions going on in Calixta and Alcee. The weather sends Calixta into Alcee’s arms, he wraps his arms around her, and they can no longer hide their feelings for one another. They gave into their raging emotions and made love. Outside the weather was subsiding and Calixta and Alcee’s bodies felt relaxed and calmed. “The rain was over; and the sun was turning the glistenin

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“The Storm” ends on a happy note with the family having a feast of a dinner and laughing so loud anyone might have heard them. Alcee’s wife, Clarisse also longed for her freedom, she was

enjoying the liberty of her maiden days and was not ready to see her husband quite yet. The rain, as it did in “The Storm,” replenished and allowed nature to grow just as the news would allow Mrs. We gather from the text that her freedom must have been limited in some way for her to be feeling this way.

“The Storm” replenished Calixta’s relationship with Bobinot and rejuvenated her life with her family much like the storm does with the earth; in fact it made everything happier and stronger. She is overcome with intense grief and instantly weeps over the loss of her husband. She may not have had the opportunity to see the world through a liberated woman’s eyes and she thought now was her chance. Mallard’s freedom did not last but a few moments. Mallard was not making herself ill as her sister had thought. “And yet she loved him – sometimes.

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