The Storm
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In Kate ChopinÆs The Storm, we find that the female protagonist, Calixta, suffers from repressed sexual desire even though she is married with a son. In the story, Chopin uses the symbol of the ôstormö that is unleashed unmercifully to represent the awakening of repressed sexuality in Calixta. Like the storm catches Calixta off-guard and cleanses everything when gone, so CalixtaÆs act of infidelity catches her off-guard but cleanses her soul of frustration and discontent. Calixta is a married woman with a male child. Calixta is vaguely aware of a certain discontent in her being, one that stems from being unfulfilled sexually in her marriage. We see that the approaching storm catches Calixta off-guard with its rapid outbreak as her expression of sexual desire will catch h
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Approximate Word count = 549
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)
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