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Désirée's Baby
You could get a lot of answers to this question, but my assumption is that Desiree and the baby would leave the area and perhaps move to the North where a mixed race baby would be more accepted by...
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Désirée's Baby
"Desiree's Baby," a short story by Kate Chopin, takes places in Creole Louisiana, during the period of time between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Historically, this location was known as the...
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Désirée's Baby
In regards to the first part of your question, readers do not know for sure that Desiree and her baby die. Chopin writes only that Desiree is never seen again. But, if you assume that she and the...
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Désirée's Baby
Although Kate Chopin does not directly state that the story is set in the pre-Civil War South, several details from the story support this setting, such as the story's theme and the inclusion of...
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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
On the basis of this story it would appear that it is one's blood that makes them what they are; it is one's racial identity that ultimately matters. And, as the story amply demonstrates, there is...
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Désirée's Baby
The last line reflects not only the short story's racial themes but also the theme of a mother's love and how that love can instinctively affect the decisions you make later on in life. The racial...
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There is certainly a very delineated separation between males and females, blacks and whites, and the rich and the poor that is ever-present in Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby". This separation...
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Désirée's Baby
Are you writing on both topics, or do you have to choose one? If you are discussing the broader subject of racial undertones, your thesis sentence should suggest something about race in the story...
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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
When we consider an author's diction, we are simply thinking about the choices they make in terms of words and phrases. A writer might use a certain kind of diction—such as aureate diction, or...
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Désirée's Baby
Armand and Désirée are both apparently white Southerners, but when they have a baby, they realize that the baby appears to be of mixed racial origins. Both Armand and Désirée are shocked, and...
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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 Desiree...
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Désirée's Baby
Madame Valmonde is, put simply, Désirée's mother through adoption. However, the depth of their relationship seems to go far deeper than that, and Madame Valmonde herself even ascribes a spiritual...
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Désirée's Baby
The revelation casts a new level of irony over Armand's attitude and actions. He assumed Desiree must be the one with black ancestry, since he is so assured of his own racial "purity," and no one...
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Désirée's Baby
In "Désirée's Baby," Armand rejects his wife and demands that she leave. In the context of this story, no one knew all that much about Desiree's own background (given her status as a foundling)....
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Désirée's Baby
In Kate Chopin’s short story “Désirée’s Baby,” the main character, Désirée Valmonde Aubigny, is found when she is just a baby by Monsieur Valmonde on the edge of his Louisiana Plantation. The...
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Désirée's Baby
The conclusion to the story of "Désirée's Baby" is very sad and tragic indeed. Désirée has been abandoned by her husband Armand, who's discovered to his great consternation that his wife is part...
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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
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
Desiree Valmonde Aubigny is the title character in Chopin's short story, "Desiree's Baby". Desiree does not know her family's origin as she was found on the front steps of the Valmonde Plantation....
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Désirée's Baby
The characters Desiree and Armand (from Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby") both react differently to the knowledge that their child has African American blood (or "the race that is cursed with...
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Désirée's Baby
It's hard for us to imagine these days, but over time society has evolved. Our understanding of the relationship between a man and a woman has changed a lot. We used to believe that men basically...
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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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Madame Valmonde had not seen Desiree and the baby for four weeks. When she reached L'Abri she shuddered at the first sight of it, as she always did. Here are the reasons why: Personification: "It...
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It can be argued that, from Armand's point of view, the knowledge contained in the letter is not new to him. The main reason Armand is burning the letter is because it contains damning evidence...
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Désirée's Baby
I think this short story teaches how destructive prejudice can be. Armand was deeply in love with Desiree, telling her that her uncertain ethinic roots did not make any difference to him. Ah, but...
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The letter at the end of this excellent story is of course a wonderful yet devastating example of situational irony, as we realise that the dark-skinned gene came not from Desiree, as both we and...
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Désirée's Baby
A careful examination of the story conclusively reveals that Armand was definitely not aware of his mother's ancestry. Note the way that when Desiree becomes aware of the dark skin of her baby, she...
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Désirée's Baby
Chopin's first mention of fire is a figurative one. She describes Armand's first sight of Desiree in the following manner: It was no wonder, when [Desiree] stood one day against the stone pillar...
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Désirée's Baby
In "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin, the setting is an important aspect of answering this question. Although none of this information is stated, the reader has to make inferences based on the...
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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
There are several themes, or key points about life (and the world) in general, that the author makes in the short story. It is important to look at themes within the historical context of the...
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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
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
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
It seems that Armand Aubigny believes that his wife, Desiree, is the reason their baby is not white because her history is unknown. Desiree had been a foundling, encountered by Monsieur Valmonde,...
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Désirée's Baby
There is not enough evidence in the story to suggest that Armand would drive his wife to suicide knowingly, but there is enough evidence to suggest that he was quite careless about what she and her...
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Désirée's Baby
Desiree is sleeping in the shadow of a stone pillar when Armand first encounters her. He falls in love at first sight, and they eventually marry and have a child. In their race-conscious society,...
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Désirée's Baby
The overwhelming force of this great story is to present the concept of racism as being something that is completely man made, and therefore only having the power that men ascribe to it. Of course,...
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Désirée's Baby
In Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby," race, origin, and social status play significant roles. Before Desiree marries Armand, her race had never been questioned even with her mysterious appearance as a...
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Désirée's Baby
The resolution of a story takes place after the climax. It is the part of the story where the conflict comes to an end. In Kate Chopin's "Désirée's Baby," the resolution comes after Désirée and her...
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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
I'll be brief in addressing the story's claims: 1) Racist views are entirely constructed by humans. Armund's race is never a problem until he learns that he is part African, himself. 2) Men are...
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It's both. At the beginning of "Desiree's Baby," the narrator states that Madame Valmonde is on her way over to see the baby. In the second paragraph, when Chopin introduces Desiree's mysterious...
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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
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 about...
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Désirée's Baby
I totally agree with the prior post—very well done and insightful. The only thing I might add is that if you are preparing an assignment on this, you could use some other examples from literature...
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Désirée's Baby
Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" involves love, race, and prejudice. As in most of her stories, her heroine Desiree finds herself at odds with what she wants in life and receives no satisfaction in...
