The Storm

I read The Storm three times and every time I read the story I felt the same way I did when I read it the first time.  The reason why is because of my personal experience in live and love.  I didn’t have the same fate as the woman in the book but I do have past loves that I will always cherish.  I was intrigued to read this and write about it because our instructor said “you will either love it or hate it”, I was hooked on wanting to read it. 

I looked at the story as saying she loves her husband and her life but one rainy day a man she once loved happened to be riding by and they had not been alone since they had been dating but something stopped them from getting married.  Through the wind and the rain there was this worry in her eyes and she was frightened for her husband and son who were not home and safe in the house.  I think with that old memories and sparks flew and with the touch of his embrace when he put his arms around her brought up the love they have always had for one another. 

They went on the emotion of the love and they were not living in the now.  When it is all over there is a line in the story that I love, “ The rain was over; and the sun was turning the glistening green world into a palace of gems.  I love this line because I feel like its saying that this is what the couple has always wanted to in the past but it didn’t happen.  The world looked different.  Now they can move on, they have closure. 

Now I’m not saying that infidelity is a good thing and if it makes you feel this way then you should do it ban fulfill that burning love you have had for someone else if something like this happens to you.  The story does not go on to say that she live the rest of her life with guilt.  Maybe she did and maybe she didn’t.  Who knows?  When it says the “So the storm passed and everyone was happy” that might mean that neither one said anything to their spouses nor to each other again because that void was fill when they had their moment. 

When it comes to the portrayal of marriage, to me it can go many different ways.  I really don’t know what her marriage was like.  Was she happy and in love and this was something that happened and wished she could take it back or was she screaming inside because she didn’t love him the way she loved the other man or the way a married woman should love her husband.  With the love aspect I believe that you can love more than one person in your live that you will cherish forever but still be married and have that same love for your husband.  The choice is up to you if you choose to go after the other man and fulfill that burning love for him and go behind your husband’s back for a moment in time or keep him as a memory just the way you two left it knowing that you will always have him in your heart.