Summary Of The Desire's Baby By Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin was the most adventurous of the 20th -century American woman writers. Her stories reflected her ideas about how women were sacrificing their lives (marriage, motherhood) at that time. Chopin had a vision of freedom, andemancipation, and that is reflected in her poems; most of her stories sent messages to the audience about how females could be robust and are capable of being equal to men. She reflects in the histories the ideas of autonomy during of that century, and for this reason, she was heavily criticized by society when women were oppressed in a patriarchal society. Kate was born in Missouri in 1850. She was raised during the Civil War and grew with a lot of recompilation about the separation of the North …show more content…
Louise seems like goodness, a new person, when she went to open the door, but unfortunately, she gets a shock when she sees her husband alive. Joy followed by heartbreak killed her in an instance, the happiness of freedom lasted about an hour. To be an independent woman in that century was very controversial in the eye of many people, and Kate was very critical of that time. Another short story reflecting a young Kate was the "Desire 's Baby." It is a story of a couple 's racial love when they get a baby in the 1900 's. He loves her but changes when he sees that the baby is the different color type. The mother, Desiree, was depressed because of his awful treatment, just because the child was not white. So, she was destroyed, and she refused to accept that. Desiree 's feelings of love turn out and change to pain, so for that reason, Desiree decides to ask Armand, "Do you want me to go?" He replies, "Yes, I want you to go." Devastated, she takes the baby and goes away. At the end of the story, there is a very symbolic moment where Desiree is hurt deeply and walks away in the desert. The inspiration for many places of the story, like landscapes, reflects the different locations in Louisiana where Kate grew up. Places like plantations and cotton fields or issues like slavery and racial problems are how Kate, as a writer, clearly expresses that historical moment and what she lived in at that time. When the Civil War started, so did all of these feelings of sadness and skin-color problems that are implied in this short story. Both of these short stories show Kate 's personality and feelings. She was an active person with a different mentality in that century. For Kate, it wasn 't easy to be a writer, a widow, and a matriarchal icon in the home, and it was even harder in that era when the power of men influenced society. The other problems were