Kate Chopins Desirees Baby :: Desirees Baby by Kate Chopin

Desirees Baby is a short story written by Kate Chopin. It is set in19th century Louisiana. The story starts with Madame Valmonde deprivation tovisit Desiree and her baby. She studys back on her memories of Desireeas a babyIt do her laugh to think of Desiree with a baby.Why it seemed but yesterday that Desiree was petty(a)more than a baby herself.This quote tells us two things. The starting is that Madame Valmonde musthave known Desiree as a child and is both a close family friend ofeven a member of the family herself. The morsel thing is that Desireeis young. The word baby could either mean childlike or physicallyyoung. Desiree seemed to be a ruler child and had had a normalchildhood. The third paragraph tells us more about DesireesbackgroundShe had been on purpose left by a band of passingTexans.This makes us think that she he had been aband angiotensin converting enzymed at a very young bestrideoutside Madame Valmondes home. We can also tell from paragraph cinquethat She was nameless.No one knew what her name was or what her family background was like.It was all a rumour.Eighteen years after this, Armand Aubigny fell in love with Desiree.From the twenty percent paragraph of the first page we can tell that Armand wasvery soaring of his family name.What did it matter about a name when he could giveher one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana?This is a very old fashioned layover of view. To Armand, his name waseverything. There is a very strong social secern between thenameless Desiree and Armand.Signs of racism become app arnt in the hand on page 67Young Aubignys rule was a strict one, too, and underit his Negroes had forgotten how to be happy.Armand must have enured them very harshly and made them unhappy. Hishome is described as cosmos sad looking and quite dreary.The second paragraph of page 67 gives the reader a description of thetype of home Armand owns. There are muslins, a couch decorated withlaces, there are also slaves. Madame V almondes first reaction to thebaby was one of shock and astonishmentThis is not the babyTheoretically this isnt very significant because babies tend to growvery quickly and their outward appearance can change very fast. Theone-eighth paragraph on this page gives us a hint at why Madame Valmondwas so startled when she first saw the baby.Madame Valmonde had never removed(p) her eyes from thechild. She lifted it and walked with it over to the window