Desiree's Baby Literary Analysis
In the fictional story, “Desiree’s Baby”, written by Kate Chopin, we find out Desiree is an orphan, taken in by Monsieur and Madame Valmonde. Then, as Desiree ages she marries a wealthy man named Armand Aubigny, who she later has a boy with. Later in the story, both find out the baby is a quadroon and Armand begins to blame Desiree for the race. Desiree begins to feel miserable and kills herself along with the baby. Chopin foreshadows the theme that racism is not something to proud of and doesn’t define a person, which develops a thrilling plot. Early in the story, Desiree freaked and gave the reader a first clue of the baby not being white.The reader can conclude that because Desiree says, “look at our child. What does it mean? Tell me.”