Abstract

This research entitled Semiotic Analysis in Short Story "Storm" by Kate Chopin. This research is based on the background of a short story that is rich in code and signs to signify, describing the marriage life that contains interesting elements to explore. The problem in this study is to find and explore the signs denotatively and conotatively in the short story “The Storm” by exploring the signs. This research is a descriptive study that discusses the signs contained in the short story "Storm" written by Kate Chopin by using the Barthesian concept to find signs and get sign meaning connotatively and denotatively. The results reflect the marriage life behind the signs in the short story which is a storm signifies lust, feet that signifies lower class society, horses that signifies higher class society, sacque that signifies pressure, dialects that signifies differences, Chinaberry tree which signifies morality and religion, marriage which signifies bonding, the sun which signifies happiness and shrimp which signifies caring and love.

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