“Desiree’s Baby” is a fiction based short story written by Kate Chopin. The short story is set during the time of slavery on a Louisiana plantation, going through what it was like during racism. Desiree, who was taken in by wealthy landowners, falls in love with a man named Armand. Armand falls deeply in love with her also, but has a reputation for having slaves or mistreating them like they weren’t human. The young couple soon have a baby boy, but something seems strange about the adolescent. He keeps getting darker and darker. Armand blames Desiree for the change of color. She ends up leaving, in the long grassy field, away from her husband with the baby and was never seen again. He soon discovers, through a letter that his mom wrote him, that she was colored and it was never Desiree.(Study 1) In this story, “Desiree’s Baby”, Kate uses symbolism, themes, and irony to develop a short story.
The story has many objects for figures of symbolism. Symbolism meaning person,place, or thing that represents something beyond itself, most often something concrete or tangible that represents an abstract idea.(Glossary 2) Certain objects in the story that foreshadow or give a …show more content…
Between her mother and her husband telling her she was different, Desiree believed in all her heart that it wasn’t her who was colored. Sadly, she gave in to the words that were being said about her and she was never heard of again. It gives you many emotions throughout the story. It also makes you wonder how things could’ve worked out differently if Desiree was the one with the colored blood instead of Armand. All in all, the story was filled with many topics of irony, symbolism, and themes. As a researcher and reader of this story, I totally recommend checking out this short story and to read it yourself. Who knows, maybe you could figure out more literature devices to the story than what I
The story has many objects for figures of symbolism. Symbolism meaning person,place, or thing that represents something beyond itself, most often something concrete or tangible that represents an abstract idea.(Glossary 2) Certain objects in the story that foreshadow or give a …show more content…
Between her mother and her husband telling her she was different, Desiree believed in all her heart that it wasn’t her who was colored. Sadly, she gave in to the words that were being said about her and she was never heard of again. It gives you many emotions throughout the story. It also makes you wonder how things could’ve worked out differently if Desiree was the one with the colored blood instead of Armand. All in all, the story was filled with many topics of irony, symbolism, and themes. As a researcher and reader of this story, I totally recommend checking out this short story and to read it yourself. Who knows, maybe you could figure out more literature devices to the story than what I