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Désirée's Baby
When Desiree's husband discovers that his child is half African American, he tells Desiree to leave. She walks off the plantation, not using the road but seeming to head in the direction of her...
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Désirée's Baby
In "Desiree's Baby," Armand discovers that his child is not white, and Desiree says she will leave. When Desiree asks if he wants her to go, he says yes. Then, when she tells him goodbye, he...
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Désirée's Baby
In the story, we learn that the slaves are still picking cotton during the month of October at L'Abri. They work even as the sun is setting. We only get a short description of L'Abri in the story....
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Désirée's Baby
In the story, Monsieur Armand Aubigny fell in love with Desiree when he spotted her standing against the stone gateway of the Valmonde estate. Accordingly, Desiree was adopted by the Valmondes as...
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Désirée's Baby
Kate Chopin leaves many ambiguities in her short story "Desiree's Baby." Whether Desiree does or does not accept that she is the reason her baby has African features is unclear. In fact, initially...
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Désirée's Baby
Both short stories by Kate Chopin center around women who have an experience that changes how they perceive their own identity. Interestingly, as the stories open, neither woman has been...
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Désirée's Baby
These two stories by Kate Chopin have a few similarities and many differences. Both stories have a young married woman as the main character: Desiree and Mrs. Mallard. Both women are under the...
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Désirée's Baby
For the first month of the baby's life, happiness suffuses L'Abri, the house where Desiree and Armand live. Desiree proclaims to Madame Valmonde, "'Armand is the proudest father in the parish, I...
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Désirée's Baby
One of the first indications that this story will not end happily occurs when Madame Valmonde arrives at L'Abri (French for "shelter"), the estate where Desiree and Armand live: Madame Valmonde...
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Désirée's Baby
Chopin's story "Desiree's Baby" is filled with subtlety and ambiguities. The seemingly unimportant detail that Desiree divulges about Armand's location suggests an interesting alternative to the...
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Désirée's Baby
Kate Chopin's story "Desiree's Baby" is full of ambiguities. Many details of the story are purposefully left vague, and many can be interpreted in at least two different ways. The little quadroon...
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Désirée's Baby
Close to the beginning of Kate Chopin's story "Desiree's Baby," there is a flashback that explains Desiree's background and how Armand fell in love with her. Desiree was a foundling; the Valmondes...
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Désirée's Baby
When Desiree confronts Armand about their baby's appearance and asks him what it means, Armand tells her, "It means the baby is not white. It means you are not white." Although the story doesn't...
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Désirée's Baby
The names in the story "Desiree's Baby" have interesting meanings in the story, especially the names Desiree, La Blanch, and L'Abri. All three are French names, relating to the French ancestry of...
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Désirée's Baby
Armand is the owner of the Louisiana plantation called L'Abri. He is very wealthy and owns many slaves. He was born in France, but his father brought him back to the plantation as a child. It is...
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Désirée's Baby
What might be confusing to you about the story "Desiree's Baby" is that author Kate Chopin deliberately created many ambiguities within the story. That is, she raises possibilities without...
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Désirée's Baby
Since you don't specify the colors you are referring to, I'm going to assume you mean skin colors. Skin colors are referred to as white, black, and yellow. White stands for the ruling class of...
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Désirée's Baby
In Kate Chopin's story, "Desiree's Baby," she tells the tale of Desiree, a woman of unknown origin, who marries a man of good family name and has a baby. Because the child eventually shows signs of...
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Désirée's Baby
In Kate Chopin's story "Desiree's Baby," Desiree seems to have attained the life of her dreams. From her infancy as a foundling to marrying one of the wealthiest and most prominent plantation...
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Désirée's Baby
In Kate Chopin's story, "Desiree's Baby," she tells the tale of a young man of proud Louisiana heritage marrying a girl of unknown background. Shen they have a child that begins to show features of...
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Désirée's Baby
After the baby is born, Armand is "the proudest father"; in fact, he is so happy that he becomes more lenient with his slaves. As Désirée talks with her mother who pays her a visit, she answers...
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Désirée's Baby
In Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby," Desiree Aubigny walks into the bayou with her infant son after being accused of being black and rejected by her plantation-owner husband, Armand....
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Désirée's Baby
In Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby," the child Desiree is found and her heritage is not known. Her adopted parents, however, don't care what her background is because they instantly love her....
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Désirée's Baby
Kate Chopin wrote "Desiree's Baby" in 1893 during the Antebellum period. The story takes place in Creole Louisiana where tensions were very high after the Civil War and the end of slavery. During...
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Désirée's Baby
Your question refers to a character who is mentioned three times in Kate Chopin's story "Desiree's Baby". La Blanche is one of the slaves at the L'Abri estate where Desiree lives with her husband...
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Désirée's Baby
In "Desiree's Baby," Kate Chopin uses French words because the story is set in Louisiana, which was a Creole society. People spoke French at that time, so it was natural that when writing about...
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Désirée's Baby
Because their baby resembles the quadroons of the plantation, such as the "yellow nurse woman," Zandrine, and the little boy who waves a fan one day as he stands near the baby, Armand Aubigny...
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Désirée's Baby
"Desiree's Baby," by Kate Chopin, was written in 1893 and took place in Louisiana during the Antebellum period. The story is about a young girl, Desiree, of mysterious origins who marries Armand, a...
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Désirée's Baby
Published in 1893, the short story "Desiree's Baby" focuses on the complicated and difficult to define issue of race. The main character is Desiree Valmonde, who is the foundling child of a wealthy...
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Désirée's Baby
In Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby," racism is one of the main themes of the story. Because the story took place in the late 19th century, shortly after the Civil War and the end of slavery, tensions...
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Désirée's Baby
In "Desiree's Baby," Kate Chopin tells a tragic story of a young girl of unknown origin who married a man of proud Louisiana heritage and has a baby. When the baby has African American features,...
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Désirée's Baby
In Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby," a man of proud Louisiana heritage, Armand, marries a girl, Desiree, of unknown origin. When they have a child who turns out to have African American features,...
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Désirée's Baby
Two phrases that seem to evoke a sense of the time period, which was the Antebellum era or 18th century, are "One of LaBlanche's little quadroon boys" and "she [Desiree] disappeared among the reeds...
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Désirée's Baby
The problem in "Désirée's Baby" is the apparent racial mix of the baby born to Désirée and Armand. When Madame Valmondé visits her daughter in her new home with Armand Aubigny, who is from a...
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Désirée's Baby
The name of the house, "L'Abri," is significant because it means "shelter" in French. One would naturally think of a house as being a shelter, but for Desiree, the house turns out to be the...
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Désirée's Baby
Desiree was abandoned as a baby and was taken in by Monsieur and Madame Valmonde, who were a wealthy couple living in Louisiana. The background of Desiree's parents is unknown. When Armand, another...
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Désirée's Baby
One of Kate Chopin’s goals in writing the short story “Desiree's Baby” was to show the damaging effect that racism has on people. Chopin does this through severe irony. Chopin sets up the...
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The Storm
I think that Wilson's point about feminine sexuality lying at the heart of "The Storm" as a story and symbol is relevant. Wilson suggests "Chopin’s title refers to nature, which is symbolically...
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Désirée's Baby
Among the slaves at L'Abri there is wonderment at the appearance of Desiree's baby. Certainly, they would be able to recognize a mulatto, as mixed light-skinned blacks were termed during the time...
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Kate Chopin
There is a frightening modern relevance to Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper": Both these short stories point to the power that people can wield...
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Désirée's Baby
In “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin, Armand Aubigny and Desiree Valmonde appear to be in love when they marry. Despite being told by Desiree’s adopted father that he did not know anything...
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Désirée's Baby
“Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin presents a sensitive subject for the nineteenth century south---interracial marriage. The child born to a slave and fathered by a white slave owner was an...
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Désirée's Baby
A dynamic character in literature undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude. Kate Chopin’s melancholy story “Desiree’s Baby” focuses on the young woman...
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Désirée's Baby
It is perhaps hard for a 21st century audience to believe that ideas concerning race and the superiority of whites over blacks were so strong in our ancestors that they dictated what kind of...
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Désirée's Baby
In Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby," although both are French Creole, Madame Valmonde, a woman, is a second-class citizen under the femme covert laws of this culture. Thus, her social position is...
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Désirée's Baby
In "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin, no one wins. There is little justice for anyone in the story. Everyone loses something. The Valmondes lose their daughter and grandchild. Desiree loses her...
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Désirée's Baby
In the exposition of Kate Chopin's story, as she prepares to visit Desiree and her baby, Madame Valmonde recalls when Desiree herself was a baby, a foundling at the plantation. She also recalls the...
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Désirée's Baby
In "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin, there are no winners. Everyone loses something because of prejudice, racism, and misunderstanding. When the main character, Desiree finds that her baby has...
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Désirée's Baby
Kate Chopin's story "Desiree's Baby" takes place before the Civil War in Louisiana. The author emphasizes three controversial subjects in her story: racism, prejudice, and marriage. One of her...
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Désirée's Baby
A person's silence can often be misinterpreted as accord with a prevailing opinion. In Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby," Madame Valmonde is, indeed, an accomplice in the misjudgment of Desiree. First...