General impression

From my point of view, this short story under the title "The Storm" by Kate Chopin is written with a hidden sense, and our main task, as the readers, to find, explain and interpret it. There are also some symbols in the story, such as 'rain', 'storm', 'sun', etc., which symbolize in some way personal feelings, actions and minds of the main characters (Calixta and Alcée). I think, that Chopin's technique, which is aimed  at making the link between human feelings and natural phenomena, is just great! It awakens our imagination and helps the emergence of images in our minds through the associations.