Otherwise, everything takes place within two rooms of a large house. Rather than dissuading the story, the choice to do so gives it the claustrophobic feeling it needs. Chopin uses a sparse structure in writing this story. Each paragraph is short and some of them, even the beginning, are only one sentence long. It creates a fast, restrictive pace that focuses only on this event to almost give a sense of real time since the entire plot takes place in such a short time frame. Using a narrative style called naturalism, she focuses on the realistic aspects of married life and adds touches of nature into her prose as symbols when describing the physical state of Louise, the protagonist and narrator ("the delicious breath of rain was in the air" ( Chopin 352)).This is very important when it comes to his emotional state as naturalistic characters are “often interpreted therefore as symbols of human frailty” (Emmert). health