In Kate Chopin’s “The storm” protagonist, Calixta, goes against the typical social norms of being a good wife to her husband. By using Jaques Derrida’s theory of deconstruction to analyze the story we see how the protagonist’s “unfaithfulness” ends up benefiting her and becomes the saving grace for her marriage. Calixta’s cheating could be counted as a type of self care and saving grace for her marriage. If the action would not have happened I’m sure she would have argued with Bobnit when he returned and their marriage would have continued down a rocky road. In conclusion we see how Derrida’s theory of deconstruction can turn a negative action that we know as cheating and turn the meaning that society has put on the word and turn it into the complete opposite. Usually when a negative action like this takes place there is a negative domino effect. In this particular instance that the act of cheated fixed the marriage itself and made calixta a refreshed, loving individual.