Allegory In 'Desiree's Baby, The Storm', By Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels from the late 1800’s. She wrote many short stories like “Desiree’s Baby”, “The Storm”, and “The Story of an Hour”. After reading these three short stories I became fascinated with her work. She was a female author writing stories that in that time some of them may not have been accepted. She used irony, symbolism, imagery, and allegory to give us detail and to use our imagination. After reading these three short stories, I got drawn with more interest by her way of detailing each character and scene. Every story that I read I absolutely liked them. In “Desiree’s Baby”, the whole time I kept saying “why”, and “how dare you”. In the beginning of the story, I was feeling the love they had for each other. When they had their baby, she would have described Armand as a soft, loving husband. It had made her love her husband greatly. When their baby keeps growing Desiree sees a change in her husband. It was like he knew that the baby didn’t have white skin and started showing his anger through the way he will talk to her. The love that Desiree had for her baby wouldn’t let her see the skin color of her baby, it had to be realized when another baby was right next to her baby. In the …show more content…
Chopin uses irony to describe the unexpected in her stories from beginning to end. Also, Chopin uses symbolism which helps us think how an object represented an action or the character. Having read these stories, it gave me different feeling in each story. “Desiree’s Baby”, made me feel disappointed and unforgiving toward Armand. “The Storm” made me feel scared that she was going to get caught by her husband. “The Story of an Hour”, made me feel happy and then sad and angry that he was alive and she dies. Chopin detailed each character and scene so that I can feel the stories as if they were