"The Storm"

In the story “The Storm” by Kate Chopin, Calixta is portrayed in two different ways. When we first meet her, she is at home waiting anxiously for her husband and son to return from the store. “She sat at a side window sewing furiously on a sewing machine”. (256) She seems like a woman who is uptight and meticulous. Through Bibi and Bobinot’s conversation in the store, Bibi makes it sound like his mother is not capable of being alone through the storm. “Mama’ll be ‘fraid, yes,” (256) but Bobinot reassures him that she will be fine. I think he is more worried that she will be angry when they return from being in the storm. Again, she is portrayed as uptight after the storm when they are cleaning up to get home. “They prepared for the worst- the meeting with an over-scrupulous housewife”. (258)
She is portrayed much differently while she is with Alcee. “but she has lost nothing of her vivacity. Her blue eyes still retained their melting quality”. (256) I think she was someone he had known before and could see through who she was even after she married. As he was leaving, “she lifted her pretty chin in the air and laughed aloud”. (258) I think she may have always been the person described by Alcee. Bobinot may have been the reason that she is who she became which to him was “an over-scrupulous housewife”. (258) I wonder what happened to their affair before they were married? I also wonder what he was doing at her house? It seems like her house is far from others and town. Did he come for any other reason?