Thursday, 29 January 2009
Not Really a Happy Ending
In a way I don't believe the last line of "The Storm" is really true. For the moment everyone is happy at the end of the story. But there are many more storms to come in the future. Sure everyone is happy after this particular storm but who's to say that it would not happen again? I say that if Calixta and Alcee couldn't resist their passion during this storm then they'll most likely do it again during the next "storm." It's kind of funny to me that everybody is happy at the end, but I feel that the happiness is mainly focused on Calixta and Alcee. What about their families? Bobinot and Alcee's wife Clarisse are completely ignorant of Calixta and Alcee's moment of passion. Do you think that they would be happy if they knew about it? I'll answer my own question and say I highly doubt it. So is everyone really better off and happier? No, I don't think so. If you think about it, not every affair is a one-time thing. Calixta and Alcee would most likely find themselves in the same position again. True happiness is not brought in a marriage or any relationship for that matter if one in the relationship is full of lies and deceit. I feel that if the story went on Bobinot and Clarisse would eventually find out about Calixta and Alcee’s affair, and it wouldn’t be a very happy ending.
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I totally agree with Katelin!
ReplyDeleteThere's a difference between temporal happiness true happiness. Calixta and Alcee were maybe happy at the moment because they had slicked their lust for the other. But when you do something that you know is wrong, it stays with you! It eats at you! I'm reminded of the Tell-tale heart by Edgar Allan Poe, where the guilt of killing the man with the freaky eyes weighed so heavily on the main character that the very floor boards seemed to beat with the same rhythm as the dead man's heart. I think that maybe the two adulterers are for the time satisfied but I think there will definitely be another kind of "storm" that emerges when the truth of this story comes out to the spouses.