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A 3 page essay that discusses how Kate Chopin's nineteenth century short story addresses the illogic and injustice of racism. No other sources cited.
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In this work, Chopin attacks the premises that formed the rationalizations justifying racism; but, rather than using a front assault on the ideas, she uses irony to make her main
point, which is that any disparities between the races are due to environmental factors, upbringing and the accessibility of educational opportunities, and are not derived from genetic inheritance. The
narrative is set in the antebellum era and, from the onset, Chopin begins formulating the storys concluding irony by presenting the information that leads Armand to conclude that his babys
African genetic heritage came from Desiree. Madame Valmonde, as she drives over to visit Desiree and the baby, thinks about how swiftly time passes, as it seems to her only
yesterday that "Monsieur in riding through the gateway of Valmonde had found her lying asleep in the shadow of the big stone pillar" (Chopin 147). Abandoned when she was a
baby herself, there is no way of knowing Desirees background or genetic inheritance. However, Chopin also establishes the background of Desirees husband, Armand Aubigny, a man who fell so
desperately in love with Desiree that he insisted that not knowing her background was immaterial to him, as "What did it matter about a name when he could give her
one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother did not immigrate with the rest of
her family, as she "love her own land too well ever to leave it" (Chopin 149). It is also established that Armand is a strict master. Desiree tells Madame Valmonde,
whom she considers to be her mother, that he has not punished one of his slaves since the baby was born and this has made Desiree very happy. When
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