Essay On Desiree's Baby By Kate Chopin

In the 20th century, feminist literature was introduced by very few women. Among the writers, was Kate Chopin. She was a novelist and short stories writer. Kate Chopin has been known for her ironic short stories; one, for example, is “Desiree’s Baby.” (1892) “Desiree’s Baby” is set before the Civil War and focuses on a racial crisis between the main characters, Desiree, and her husband, Armand Aubigny, as they took notice that their son seemed to be of mixed race. A dispute broke out between them about who could of have had the gene; it ended with Desiree leaving with their child and returning home to her adopted mother, Madame Valmonde. As Armand was burning all their things to get rid of the memory of them; he came across a bundle of letters; one from his mother, premortem, stating that “…I thank the good God for having so arranged our lives that our dear Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery.” (Chopin 4) Revealing that it was Armand with the biracial hereditary, not Desiree.
Prejudice is a strong sentiment, it can force a person to commit an unforgivable act; in this case, it complied a man to surrender his own flesh and blood. While his pride .

Chopin has skillfully used pride, prejudice, foreshadowing and irony to enrich her story and grab
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The rule that if one person has a single drop of African-American blood, they are considered black themselves. Roslyn Reso Foy describes in “Chopin's ‘Desiree's Baby’" that his black heritage leaves him "to face an uncertain and tragic future" (223). Armand always believed that he was part of established society because of his rich white heritage, but because of the blacks were regarded so low in society, his new association with them strips the meaning and importance from his