“Desiree’s Baby”

“Desiree’s Baby”

There was a time not so long ago when a man’s superiority and authority wasn’t a question but an accepted truth that women are portrayed as weak and absent personalities, who are dependent on men for their livelihood.. In the story “Desiree’s Baby,” by Kate Chopin, I see an example similar to this. This is a story of love, rejection and prejudice, a story with moral beginnings that slowly turns to expose a revolting side of human relations. I see Armand, a wealthy landowner in the south, who is confronted by a family secret that has been hidden from him for years. Armand is of mixed blood, be has the blood of slavery on his veins. Armand who was innocent of this secret makes wrong assumptions that later brings on tragic consequences.
In the south the bloodlines were very important for the status of a family and their social placement within the society in which they live. In this story, I see the conflict of man vs. man which is the rel...