Desiree's Baby | Overview

In "Desiree's Baby" Chopin explores Southern racism and the widespread abhorrence of miscegenation (the mixture of races, specifically the cohabitation or marriage between a white person and a member of another race). The story focuses on the life of a young woman named Desiree who was adopted into a wealthy Louisiana family and who grows up and marries a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner. When Desiree and her husband Armand have a child who appears to have black blood, Armand accuses Desiree of having mixed ancestry. As an adopted female, she has no power to argue with him. Then the...

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