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Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” – A Setting Made for Adultery

Written in December 1898, and one of Chopin’s last stories, “The Storm” was unpublished until 1969, when Per Seyersted included it in Kate Chopin:  A Critical Biography.  In fact when Daniel Rankin published Chopin’s works in 1932, he chose to “pass it over in silence” (Seyersted 164). The reason, as any reader may determine for him/herself lies in the boldness of the story itself.  When considering that this was written in the nineteenth century and follows the adulterous affair of  a mother and … Continue Reading