Desiree's Baby

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…

Kate Chopin’s word choice creates racial inferiority and superiority throughout Desiree’s Baby with the use of tone and slang. Kate Chopin’s word choice creates racial inferiority through the use of tone when she states in the passage “A quick conception of all that this accusation meant for her nerved her with unwonted courage to deny it. ‘It is a lie; it is not true, I am white!’” This stupendous example of word choice displayed by Kate Chopin in the passage creates racial inferiority and…

of relationship and child has come to be accepted by a greater percentage of the population. This displays the progression of this topic which was greatly influenced by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 60’s (Alouise 1). The story, “Désirée’s Baby”, displays negative opinions toward biracial relationships and children before the Civil Rights Movement. The…

” The irony is that he had actually meets her when he is eight years old, but didn’t recognised her because she is so pretty and at the age of being able to marry. They got married and Desiree gave birth to a healthy baby boy, but she is shocked to see her baby. Her baby isn’t white…

bring sensitive and somewhat, in Chopin’s time, taboo subjects to her readers. In Désirée’s Baby, for example, Chopin explores the concept of miscegenation. After Désirée and her husband have a child together, it is discovered that the child has the same skin color as what Désirée’s character refers to as a “quadroon”, a person with one-fourth African ancestry. This discovery causes many problems not only for Désirée’s family (her husband, in particular) but for Désirée herself as well. Her…

“appearances can be deceiving.” One could look at these parents and think maybe the father isn’t the real father, maybe the baby is adopted, or maybe one of the parents have Caucasian in their background. However, none of these three speculations are true, the baby actually has a unique gene mutation that gives her the light skin. In Armand’s case, he automatically assumed that Desiree’s genetics had been behind his child’s skin color. However, he was wrong, because it had been him all along,…

“Désirée’s Baby” is the story of love, marriage, and loss which points directly to the traditional values of society’s view of race and the social norms of the time. As Armand sees Désirée for the first time, a real passion develops within him. Love at first…

story “Desiree’s Baby,” published in 1892, is one her few stories set pre-Civil War. It is about Desiree who is abandoned and adopted when she was very young. She marries a slave owner, Armand, and they a child. Her child is of mixed race. Armand blames Desiree for having African in her blood. He makes her and their baby leave to avoid ruining his family name. Desiree and the baby die. It is then made known at the end that it is her husband that has African in his blood which caused the baby to…

The Opposition Known for her advance views on feminism, Kate Chopin wrote stories that validates her perspective on men being evil and dominant. Chopin’s symbolism in regards to color portray a theme similar to that of “good versus evil” considering most prominently to race as opposed to morals; furthermore, Chopin’s instances of cheating, discrimination, and dishonesty are portrayed through the exhibition of irony, conflict, foreshadowing, and metaphoric language to exemplify the reasons…

A parent’s most important goal should be the happiness of his or her child. Armand Aubingy’s parents, in “Désirée’s Baby” by Kate Chopin, are the perfect example of how far one’s mother and father should be willing to go to achieve the ultimate level of happiness for their child. On the other hand, Armand is the perfect example of how a parent’s skeletons can create horrible consequences for their child. As a result of this, Armand’s parents seem to be leading factors in his denial of his…