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A 5 page essay that examines Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer argues that in this story, Chopin utilizes irony to prove her point, which is that any disparity between the races is a matter of environment, upbringing and opportunity and not a factor of genetic inheritance. No additional sources cited.
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Chopin composed this story, racism was not only accepted by the majority of the population, but was institutionalized in law. Therefore, when Chopin attacked the foundations of racism in this
short story, she was attacking a virtual institution. Considering that the racist attitudes of many people were thoroughly entrenched, a direct attack on racism would simply have repelled many readers.
Therefore, Chopin utilizes irony to prove her point, which is that any disparity between the races is a matter of environment, upbringing and opportunity and not a factor of genetic
inheritance. Like Mark Twain, who addressed the racism of the late nineteenth century by setting his fiction during the antebellum era, Chopin sets her narrative sometime prior to
the Civil War. From the beginning, Chopin carefully sets up the structure of the story so that it will seem logical to assume that the babys black genetic heritage comes
from Desiree. Chopin accomplishes this by informing the reader of Desirees background, or rather her lack of a background. She was found at the gateway of Valmonde, a neighboring plantation
to the Aubigny estate. Desiree was raised as a member of the Valmonde family, but her genetic background is unknown. What is less obvious at the beginning of the
story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmonde, who shutters at the sight of
it. This was because for this estate had not "known the gentle presence of a mistress" for many years (Chopin).Armands father married and buried his wife in her native France,
which she loved too well to leave. This is obviously the cover story that Armands father circulated to explain his wifes absence from his ancestral home. Early on, Chopin also
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