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A 5 page paper which examines how social class is represented in the short story and also compares it with the portrayal of class in William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGdesem.rtf
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defeat in the Civil War effectively ended slavery, the issues of gender and race that had been adversely dictated by class prejudices continued. The influence of Victorian conservatism, which
relegated women to second-class citizens who could only, at best, achieve the social identity ascribed to their fathers or husbands. In the patriarchy of the South, male lineage enables
the classes to perpetuate from one generation to the next. This was the nineteenth-century society into which Kate Chopin was born and raised. Although Louisiana bayou country stirred
a bit of Creole flavoring into the cultural mix, the established classes and the baggage they carried were the same as they were throughout the rest of the South.
Chopins 1893 short story, "Desirees Baby" was a realistic indictment of how biased class distinctions reinforced social and cultural attitudes, even among the Creoles, who though dark-skinned themselves, bristled at
any suggestion that they might be "tainted" with African blood, as if this was synonymous with possessing "the spirit of Satan" (Chopin 152). Beautiful young Desiree had been
adopted at birth by the Valmonde family, an apparently middle-class Louisiana family. Therefore, Desiree had essentially been born without class, until she formally received the Valmonde name, although according
to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely left by a party of Texans" (Chopin 147). This would make her akin to a class of
uncouth animals in the minds of the privileged Creole bluebloods. When Desiree falls in love and marries a planter named Armand Aubigny after what can best be described as
a whirlwind courtship, there is cause for celebration amongst the Valmondes, as Armand hails from "one of the oldest and proudest families" (Sollors 66). It appears obvious that Mademoiselle
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