There is a time in history were people were not accepted for who they were, especially by the color of an individual 's skin. The same chances were not presented to those who were of a darker complexion. Two different plots with the same concept that shed light to a situation where pretending seemed to be the only way out of the hardships of what life had to offer for blacks. “The Imitation of Life” one of the greatest movies of the 1950 's era with a strong message and a tear jerking ending. Kate Chopin gives her audience another critical, yet, mysterious story in “Desiree 's Baby.” Both the movie and story introduces the subject of colored people passing as white in a society where blacks were not accepted to be anything other than slaves
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The plantation owner, Armand, falls deeply in love with a woman named Desiree. She doesn 't have much of an identity because she was an orphan when the woman who raised her found her. “Monsieur Valmondé grew practical and wanted things well considered: that is, the girl 's obscure origin. Armand looked into her eyes and did not care. He was reminded that she was nameless. What did it matter about a name when he could give her one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana?” (Chopin). Desiree has a baby that changes Armand 's attitude for the better, but within a few months ' rumors began to spread and “unexpected visits” began to happen. The baby had changed in his appearance, he was not white as snow but was mulatto. The assumption in the story was that Desiree ' was not white but black, which made her husband furious with anger and hate. From the visit from others, people wondered who the father was. The story was written with many assumptions to be made in this situation and how it ended. Armand 's affection towards his family shifted and it was not going to get any better. “Then a strange, an awful change in her husband 's manner, which she dared not ask him to explain. When he spoke to her, it was with averted eyes, from which the old love-light seemed to have gone out”
The plantation owner, Armand, falls deeply in love with a woman named Desiree. She doesn 't have much of an identity because she was an orphan when the woman who raised her found her. “Monsieur Valmondé grew practical and wanted things well considered: that is, the girl 's obscure origin. Armand looked into her eyes and did not care. He was reminded that she was nameless. What did it matter about a name when he could give her one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana?” (Chopin). Desiree has a baby that changes Armand 's attitude for the better, but within a few months ' rumors began to spread and “unexpected visits” began to happen. The baby had changed in his appearance, he was not white as snow but was mulatto. The assumption in the story was that Desiree ' was not white but black, which made her husband furious with anger and hate. From the visit from others, people wondered who the father was. The story was written with many assumptions to be made in this situation and how it ended. Armand 's affection towards his family shifted and it was not going to get any better. “Then a strange, an awful change in her husband 's manner, which she dared not ask him to explain. When he spoke to her, it was with averted eyes, from which the old love-light seemed to have gone out”