"So the storm passed and everyone was happy." - Kate Chopin Or were they? After a storm, there is indeed a sense of calm and happiness. Calixta and Bobinot are now home enjoying shrimps as a family laughing so loud that "anyone might have heard them as far away as LaBalliéres" (Chopin). Alcee and Clarisse are both enjoying their time apart, Alcee not rushing Clarisse's return, "realizing that their health and pleasure were the first things to be considered" (Chopin). The same for Clarisse: she is very much enjoying her time away, considering that it was "the first free breath since her marriage seemed to restore the pleasant liberty of her maiden days" (Chopin). She is enjoying her freedom away. Now, as for Calixta and Alcee even they are both happy, in the way that they enjoyed their moment of passion with each other. Even though it was brief, they have finally given into one another's dormant longing. Alcee "smiled at her with a beaming face" (Chopin). And Calixta "laughed aloud" (Chopin). After the fleeting incident everything appears as if it is going to be okay. For Calixta and Alcee things can get difficult. They seem to be fighting some kind of temptation for one another. Obviously not only is the adultery portrayed here as unpremeditated, but it is also portrayed as something that overtakes the pair, a force as irresistible as the storm, as implacably beyond the realm of choice as nature itself (Stein). What Calixta and Alcee have done is frowned upon and is found to be unacceptable in the time period. Calixta clearly only is thinking about herself as she abandons her housework to have sex with Alcee without feeling remorseful. The choices the two of them made were out of pure passion. No one thought of the possibility of pregnancy. If Calixta were to become pregnant, it would truly break Bobinot's heart; he is straight, steady and deeply in love with Calixta (Stein). In contrast to Alcee, he does not care for Calixta