Kate Chopins Desirees Baby :: Desirees Baby by Kate Chopin

Desirees Baby is a short account written by Kate Chopin. It is set in19th century Louisiana. The accounting starts with Madame Valmonde going tovisit Desiree and her coddle. She thinks back on her memories of Desireeas a babyIt made her laugh to think of Desiree with a baby.Why it seemed but yesterday that Desiree was littlemore than a baby herself.This quote tells us devil things. The first is that Madame Valmonde must pretend known Desiree as a squirt and is either a close family friend ofeven a fellow member of the family herself. The second thing is that Desireeis unripe. The word baby could either mean youthful or physic all toldyyoung. Desiree seemed to be a normal child and had had a normalchildhood. The third carve up tells us more about Desirees screen backgroundShe had been purposely left by a band of passingTexans.This makes us think that she he had been abandoned at a truly young ageoutside Madame Valmondes home. We can excessively tell from paragraph fivethat 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 sexual love with Desiree.From the fifth paragraph of the first scallywag we can tell that Armand was precise proud of his family name.What did it matter about a name when he could regressher one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana?This is a very old forge point of view. To Armand, his name waseverything. there is a very strong affectionate contrast between thenameless Desiree and Armand.Signs of racism become apparent in the book on page 67Young Aubignys direct was a strict one, too, and underit his Negroes had forgotten how to be happy.Armand must have treated them very harshly and made them unhappy. Hishome is described as being 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 sla ves. Madame Valmondes first reaction to thebaby was one of shock and confusionThis is not the babyTheoretically this isnt very significant because babies tend to wrickvery quickly and their outward appearance can change very fast. Theeighth paragraph on this page gives us a pinch at why Madame Valmondwas so startled when she first saw the baby.Madame Valmonde had never removed her eyes from thechild. She lifted it and walked with it over to the window