Another Man’s Wife

“The Storm,” by Kate Chopin, is a story about a married woman whose husband and child are kept from home by a horrible storm. While alone, Calixta’s old flame, Alcee, stops by, and asks, “May I come and wait on your gallery till the storm is over?” (207) Calixta gives into her temptations, and disregards the vows she took with her husband.
The central idea, temptation, happens when Calixta and Alcee are alone together for the first time in five years. Calixta is a good wife and mother. She shows this when her family returns, and she sh...