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A 3 page division essay on Kate Chopin’s short story Desiree’s Baby. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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that touches on gender issues, racial issues, and family issues. The following paper provides a division essay, illustrating and examining the story from the perspectives of race, gender, and family.
Division Essay: Desirees Baby by Chopin RACE: In this story the concern of race is not one that is seen in the beginning, and it is really an
issue one only comes to fully understand at the very end of the story. In the story there is some subtle mention of the issue of the babys coloring but
Desiree indicates that her husband is incredibly happy with the infant. However, as time goes on it is obvious that the infant is not completely white, and the fact that
Desirees background is unknown, it is assumed the fault is hers and that she must have black in her. Desiree asks her husband what it all means, in relationship to
the infant clearly not being white, and he tells her, "It means...that the child is not white; it means that you are not white" (Chopin). He dismisses her and his
child, pretending they never existed. In this particular era most white people would have nothing to do with interracial children or their parents, despite the truth being that many
white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves as well. However, it seems that in historical
consideration, as it relates to states such as Louisiana, there was a condition wherein "mixed-blood Creoles...in antebellum Louisiana" had a higher than expected social status (Powell). Chopins story involves just
this reality for it is a story about "a woman brought up in the genteel white world of Louisiana during slavery" (Hendry),
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