"The Storm"

In “The Storm” Calixta and Alcee happened to get together due to the bad weather which lead up to them committing adultery. I do not think that the storm is an excuse for adultery. It just so happened to be that there was a storm that day. It probably would have happened at any other day if Calixta’s husband wasn’t home and she knew that she was safe. Obviously Alcee had feelings still for Calixta the way he spoke of her such as” she was a little fuller than 5 yrs ago, but she had lost nothing of her vivacity.”(pg. 256). He remembered her quite vividly so he still had a thing for her. The worst part of it is he wrote his wife telling “her not to hurry back, but if she and the babies liked it at Biloxi, to stay a month longer.”(pg. 259) Clarisse thought he was being kind hearted when in fact he is not. He is hoping to get together again with Calixta. So then it goes to show that the storm had nothing to do with the adultery.