Response to "The Storm"

The ending of “The Storm” is very surprising, as the story talks about infidelity, marriage, and love. If we were to take the “storm” as a metaphor, then one could state that the storm was the feelings Alcee Laballiere was having while he was at Calixta’s home. The Infidelity there is that of which Calixta  is married, and so is Alcee, though they both commit acts of infidelity.

The definition of infidelity: in·fi·del·i·ty/ˌinfiˈdelitē/

Noun:	1.      The action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse or other sexual partner. 2.      Unbelief in a particular religion, esp. Christianity.
Synonyms:	disloyalty - unbelief - unfaithfulness - disbelief

  

For our purposes, the first definition is what we will go off for our purposes.

I had to google what it meant to understand the blog prompt.  

The reader should think about this ending as an end to the infidelity between Calixta and Alcee, and the happiness between Clarisse, Alcee, Calixta, and Bobinot.  Bibi is also involved, but the main characters are Calixta and Alcee.  The love that they might have once had is evident through the infidelity in the story, as is it through the small flashback of “Assumption,” whatever that was, whether it be a play or a gathering, I still do not know. I looked in the book at the previous story(a glance at a few pages), of which “The Storm” is supposed to be a sequel to, and have not found any evidence of the “Assumption.”  I would very much like to know what the thing is to make the story clearer to the reader and myself.

The ending has a lot to say about infidelity, love, and marriage.  If something goes by unknown about by those who it would harm, there is no foul. Which is not true(in my opinion), but that is the message I get from the end of the story.