Essay desiree39s baby kate chopin

In the short story “Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin, the story focuses on the Joys and pains of motherhood, love, rejection ad racism. Madame Valmonde not been able to have children of her own, develops an attachment to Desiree who she considers her child. The girl brought her joy and fulfilment.

Aubigny’s chooses the wrong path of letting go of his family because of the color of the baby. The baby just like his parents did not choose where to be born and in what color. Desiree also chooses the wrong path of killing herself and son. This because she feels that society cannot accept her and they may label her as a “failure.”

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Society cannot accept that both Augbiny and Desiree, both white can have a black offspring, the cursed race. Augbiny cannot accept living with a woman who has given birth to an inferior being (Chopin). He cannot imagine what his close friends, family, and society will think about him.