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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts Desiree, in “Desiree’s Baby” and Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of an Hour,” both by Kate Chopin. Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
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also women who sometimes performed their roles as wives fairly well, and did what society expected of them to a great extent. Two of her short stories, "Desirees Baby" and
"The Story of an Hour," are tales that present the reader with strong women, but yet they are different types of women at the same time. The following paper examines
the women in each story, separately, and then compares and contrasts them. Desiree Desiree is a young woman, an excited woman, and a woman who is truly in
love. She adores her husband and would do anything for him and is incredibly excited to have given birth to his child, essentially giving him a most precious gift. She
tells her mother (her adopted mother of sorts) when she arrives, "Oh, Armand is the proudest father in the parish...Oh, mamma, Im so happy; it frightens me" (Chopin [2]).
Desiree represents the perfect wife in so many ways. She is not a woman from any regal background, and is just grateful to be loved and to have had a
child for her husband. She is fulfilling her role as a wife and a mother and for her life could get no better. But, then she begins to experience trouble.
As the race of the infant becomes more obvious, its race being obviously partially African, she becomes confused. Her husband berates her and accuses her of being partially African.
Desiree, for the most part, takes this strongly and leaves her home to move back with her mother because she feels she has failed as a wife and mother. She
does not know that her husband is fully aware the African ancestry is from his own mother and himself. Desiree, however, shows herself as a very strong and independent woman
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