Sexuality In The Storm And How I Met My Husband

“The Storm” and “How I Met my Husband”: The other face of women sexuality.

Over centuries, women had been a necessary character in most of the literary works. Although they are mostly portrayed as a part essential of a family, a filling character, a hero, or a villain; in very rare times they are addressed as independent sexual characters. Fortunately, this bold topic is an interesting meal for audacious short story writers. “The Storm and “How I Met My Husband” are examples of this sort of stories. No because their protagonists are women, but because they are based in the most personal and dark secrets of the characters and because, at best, they can be described as bottled-up creatures ready to blast as sexual volcanos. These two stories,

“How I Met my Husband” by Alice Munro relates the “love” story of the fifteen-year-old Edie, a country girl that worked for a family of veterinarians. Edie “falls in love” with an older and handsome guy named Chris. Chris Watters was the pilot of the plane landed on her bosses’ back yard. In the story, Edie starts feeling more like a woman since she secretly wanted to be dressed up like one. Being Chris, the first man that sees her in that role, she carried out with this emotion and felt very attracted to Chris. The story’ narrator is the same Edie, which limit the reader to see only from Eddie point of view but it also helps to understand her true feelings This story relates how women are a process of change since they are born, and Edie get to experiment innocence, gossip, jealousy and womanhood. Edie shows herself very inexperience and innocent during most of the story, but she also shows jealousy as other character appears. Alice Kelling arrives to the story in a tireless journey of finding her fiancé Chris Watters. Eddie shows evident bitterness towards this Alice and wishes she would go away. That is why the main character shows so eager to share that Chris and she were intimated. But Edie did not really know the significance of being intimated, instead she confused kisses with the same act of sex. Maybe that’s how she felt it. Edie describes that moment as: “He put the cake away carefully and sat beside me and started those little kisses” (a59). And she continued to passive describe how Chris kissed her neck, her, lips and her ears. Edie who had never experiment such a feeling, ended awestruck by this gentleman, who did not go any way further at the moment, and left with the promise of a letter. After Chris left, Edie started to wait for his letter, by patiently sitting every day on the driveway to see the mailman. Edie realized not soon enough that was having