The greatest measure of a person's strength is in the worst of times, so My Mother Never Worked's Wife worked should definitely win mother of the year on Calixta. from The Storm. The texts were completely different. In Chopin's story The Tempest, when Calixta was faced with the opportunity to relive old passions that she had missed in her youth with Alée, she took it. Her motivations were never even weighed against her husband's potential reactions. She simply fell into the other man's arms and let the seduction turn into sex. Then she acts like nothing happened when her family returns from the store after the rains stop. Maybe the extramarital moment wasn't such a problem for him. Maybe she told herself, “It’s no one’s business” and moved on with her life. While the mother in My Mother Never Worked was depicted as a saint among women. There were no flaws, only strength and love. This may be because the text is told as a flashback by one of his daughters after his death, so the daughter may have painted the memories with "rosy colors ».