It defines the importance of racial variations by letting a white woman conceive a black child. The birth of the couple’s child also highlights the power that men have over women. The author uses both the development and the damage of their marriage to show the inferiority of women and black people during that time. As their relationship demolished, the theme of power and ethnicity still occurs in today society. The male controls the destiny of the woman because it is speculated that she is black. “Desiree’s Baby” presents the perception of life during the nineteenth century to show the effects that gender and race had on the people during this
It defines the importance of racial variations by letting a white woman conceive a black child. The birth of the couple’s child also highlights the power that men have over women. The author uses both the development and the damage of their marriage to show the inferiority of women and black people during that time. As their relationship demolished, the theme of power and ethnicity still occurs in today society. The male controls the destiny of the woman because it is speculated that she is black. “Desiree’s Baby” presents the perception of life during the nineteenth century to show the effects that gender and race had on the people during this