In Kate Chopin's short stories' "The storm" and "The Story of an hour" we find the marriages are not pleased with each other. In other words what Chopin is telling us through these two stories is that marriage sometimes restricts our personal freedom. In both stories we can see different kind of problems in their marriage but they are still problems. In the first story, "The story of an hour" the conflict in the couple is that the husband Brently Mallard abused his wife Mrs. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard felt like she wasn't free and that's why when she received the news of her husband's death she was so happy because she felt free. In the other story, "The Storm" it's a different situation, is about unfaithfulness, Calixta who is unfaithful to her husband Bobinot as she had an affair with Alcée Laballière whom was unfaithful to his wife Clarisse.
             As we can see in both stories the couples had freedom problems. In the first one the wife Mrs. Mallard who was repressed by her husband Brently Mallard. She was so repressed by her husband to the point that when she is told that Brently is dead she felt happiness. That is because she was free again, I think that when someone reacts like that to her husbands death she had to be very sad and abused by her husband. This is very sad because in a marriage you are supposed to be happy with that special someone and share the good times, but in y this case its all the opposite.
             In "The storm" there is also the lack of personal freedom, but this case is different from the other because there is no repression from one member to the other. In this story we can see that the couples are not happy or pleased with themselves and that's why they had an affair. In this case there is no personal freedom because the ones that had an affair don't tell the truth and confessed, instead they decide to ke
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