tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post5169678181806751911..comments2011-06-23T23:46:42.707-04:00Comments on Random Rants: So the Storm Passed and Everyone Was HappyJanethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014052381082677120noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post-58318671896514029142010-02-24T23:51:04.885-05:002010-02-24T23:51:04.885-05:00Kate Chopin surprised all the readers of her time ...Kate Chopin surprised all the readers of her time in her story "So The Storm Passed and Everyone Was Happy." She showed the ways that women could go and do what they want in time that it was socially unacceptable. She wrote the things that nobody else would write about with women and then played it off as if nothing was wrong after the storm was over.Justin Wittennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post-67608960687407727942010-02-24T20:03:10.770-05:002010-02-24T20:03:10.770-05:00I can see how Kate Chopin wanted to get her point ...I can see how Kate Chopin wanted to get her point across but at that time in our society, it just was not taken very well. Men could do whatever the wanted to and women did not have any rights at all. Kate Chopin opened the eyes of everyone and stirred everything up.Mark Khourynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post-4861018797991645152010-02-18T15:15:30.825-05:002010-02-18T15:15:30.825-05:00Debbie Haines
The rub is that a woman would dare t...Debbie Haines<br />The rub is that a woman would dare to have or exhibit let alone act on any desires that are not centered on her husband, children and home.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post-75896148420212256972010-02-18T09:50:05.317-05:002010-02-18T09:50:05.317-05:00Christina Gardner....
I have only read two stori...Christina Gardner....<br /> I have only read two stories by Kate, but the girl's got style and a natural ability to make the vulgar side of people natural. I have read The Storm and The Story of an Hour. In both stories she shows how women are human and can have the same thoughts and urges of a man. Her characters are real...people do cheat on their partners. Its just that society has demanded that this be an evil break with social norms and how dare a writer shrug off their moral obligation to society and not punish characters who express their true nature. At least that's how I think Howell saw her writings. Her writings inpire me to get off my moral high horse and open my minds to the reality that is the human experience. And her influence is streaming through modern American literature from unconviential Tom Robbins books to the deranged book, American Psycho. Kate allows writers to write real people in a very extreme and unapologetic way. Thanks Kate.CIGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09452232718313742383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post-61672142859442712382010-02-17T14:58:41.395-05:002010-02-17T14:58:41.395-05:00One thing we didn't discuss, and I thought abo...One thing we didn't discuss, and I thought about after class was, what about brothels? The men in upper class households were allowed, and encouraged to head out to saloons where they would have their choice of any prostitute they wanted. Why can't Calixta have an affair with a nice guy, if someone like Bobinot is encouraged to go out and have his own affair? <br />I guess I didn't feel like Calixta was so bad because she was filling a sexual void that perhaps Bobinot was not filling. He seemed to be a very nice husband, but because of the restrictive and oppressive era of the story I'm certain she was not satisfied with her life, and this was a way to momentarily go against the grain. And for this reason, Calixta is not a bad person, but a rebel, and I like that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post-50685955080198229932010-02-16T23:32:31.234-05:002010-02-16T23:32:31.234-05:00Okay, I'm going to have to fall off the path f...Okay, I'm going to have to fall off the path for just one second and note that Virginia Woolf killed herself and from the background information that I received in my Junior American Lit class in High School, it seems to me that she was mentally unstable.<br />Anyway, not what this post is supposed to be about!! (bad Leah, bad...)<br />I think that Kate Chopin and her amoral characters are threatening to break down all the walls of morality left in society. True, times and views have immensely changed since she lived, but I think that the threat of the structure of society being broken down has always been and will always be a very scary idea for anyone [other than those like Kate who are the ones bashing in the walls]. We all want to believe that justice will prevail, that the good guy [or girl] will win and that things we view as evil or that go against our views and society's structure will never prevail. Unfortunately, Kate Chopin and her characters are simply slapping us square in the face with the reality that life isn't a story. The bad guys can and do win sometimes. Our societal structure is not what we think it is. There are always holes in it. Women [and men] have cheated and gotten away with it. People have abandoned their families and never had to answer for it, or in some cases, even feel regret for it. [I wonder how absolutely horrendous one's children and spouse have to be to feel no guilt in leaving them high and dry, especially in today's world...]Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01186089730748672590noreply@blogger.com