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Ailee ChoChopin’s ‘Storm’, ‘Story of an Hour’, ‘Respectable Woman’ express the desire of flight from the institution of marriage within which her heroines are trapped. When the boundaries of the accepted everyday world are suddenly shattered, the process of becoming begins. The line of flight is made possible by the heroines’ ‘becomings’ : becoming plant, becoming flame, and becoming woman. The line of flight is not always good. It can be negative and empty. Sometimes it gets into a black hole and contributes to reterritorialization. ‘Storm’ can be an example. By suggesting that marriage and adultery can coexist, the authoress ironically defends the established territory of marriage. On the other hand, ‘Story of an Hour’ and ‘Respectable Woman’ show that the dismantling line of flight involves real becoming, and, more important, that the line can be creative and constitutive: it deviates from the central standard of Man and creates an alternative passage at the moment of illumination. To express this moment of heightened intensities is Chopin’s achievement. She just stops there and does not go further. But it makes an irreparable fissure in the fixed framework of marriage. The line of flight is not simply the passage through which Chopin's heroines can escape from the world; the world itself can escape through it.
