despairingly."It means," he answered lightly, "that the child is not white; it means that you are not white."(Chopin...3). Indeed, as in every story there is also a protagonist in this case “Désirée Valmonde Aubigny, a foundling who disappears with her child after her husband Armand accuses her of being part African American”(enotes...1). Désirée is the adopted daughter of the valmonde family, at the age of eighteen she falls in love with Armand, and marries him, she gives birth to a boy who later brings of his african american heritage , Désirée could be perfectly described as a submissive woman since she accepts and wrongly regrets not being white, for the allegations his husband exposes to her, she is so influenced by her husband that she
