What general attitudes toward sex, love, and marriage does Chopin imply?Cite evidence to support your answer

What will be an ideal response?



  • Calixta is queen of the domestic sphere: she is so preoccupied with her sewing that she barely notices the impending storm, and then she hurries to gather Bobinôt’s Sunday clothes before the rain falls. Calixta worries about her husband’s safety—and especially her son’s—after she sees a lightning bolt strike a chinaberry tree. Even after her encounter with Alcée, Calixta seems genuinely glad to be reunited with her husband and son when they return home. But passions, Chopin seems to say, cannot be denied. Their force is equal to that of a storm, and the marriage bed is not the likeliest place for the release of that force. Indeed, the author hints that marriage and sexual pleasure are incompatible in Parts IV and V of the story, where Alcée urges his absent wife to stay away another month and where we learn that for Clarisse, “their intimate conjugal life was something which she was more than willing to forgo for a while.”

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