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Driven indoors by the intensifying rain, Alcée and Calixta find themselves alone for the first time since before their marriages, and prepare to endure the storm. Chopin’s description of the two in this scene foreshadows their impending sexual encounter and, in doing so, indicates that stamping out sexual desire isn’t as easy as closing and fortifying a door to keep the rain out. As an allegory for the sex between Alcée and Calixta, this stage of the thunderstorm here reflects the growing sexual tension between the two former lovers. In this sense, readers may reasonably infer the ways the characters…