Dec 29, 2009

Desiree's Baby | Social Sensitivity

Chopin sympathizes with the plight of black people during the Civil War era and she particularly sympathizes with people of mixed blood. She does not moralize in the story, but she does emphasize the evils of slavery and how it degrades both slaves and slave owners. There is nothing attractive about plantation owners like Armand who consider themselves racially superior. They have false pride. Armand, as the epitome of the cruel slave owner, is unable to feel human connection.

Armand believes in his superiority, both as a Creole and as a Caucasian male, and he believes that...