Kate Chopin's Short Story 'The Storm'

The short story “The Storm” by Kate Chopin is a story about a woman, Calixta, who sees her lover after a long time. She did not see her lover alone by herself from the time she got married. Therefore, when she sees him on a stormy day when he looks for shelter and going to her house, while she is there alone, their passion is awakening. In the end of the story, Chopin writes “everyone was happy”, her assumption is that happiness is freedom, is to do something unorthodox, bad, like a storm, overwhelming but it comes and goes, and when it is over everything come back to normal. We can see that happiness is momentary and overwhelming like a storm when, Calixta is happy and satisfied when she sees her lover leave, Calixta is happy to see her husband