“The Storm” by Kate Chopin was written in a time when women did not have the same freedoms men had. What makes Kate Chopin’s work very different was the fact that she wrote about things like adultery, which was in its self a controversial topic, but the fact that it was a woman who was writing about it made it an even more controversial. Kate Chopin was born in the year 1851 in St. Louis. She spent years after her marriage in Louisiana, where she became a mother of six. This explains a lot about her writing and the roles placed in her stories. In “The Storm” written by Chopin, it does take place in Louisiana and the role of women at that time was the homemaker. The women were to be a devoted wife and mother. Chopin though wrote the story with