Desiree S Baby

Désirée 's Baby

By: Monica
Rachel

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Plot
Désirée is abandoned as a baby, and then she was discovered by
Monsieur Valmondé lying in the shadow of a stone pillar near the
Valmondé gateway and was adopted by the Valmondé couple. She is courted by Armand after growing up. They get married and have a child, but the baby 's skin is the same color as a quadroon.
Armand assumes that Désirée is a decendent of black people.
Désirée tries to deny the accusation by asking for her mother
Valmondé 's proof, but Madame Valmondé only suggests that
Désirée and the baby return to the Valmondé estate. Armand also insists on their leaving. After that, Désirée takes the baby away and walks off into a bayou, never to be seen again. Armand finds one letter written from his mother to his father, revealing that he is the one who is partly black, by his mother 's ancestry. Armand burns all of Désirée’s belongings, even the child 's cradle, as well as all of the letters that she had sent him during their courtship with his mother 's letter.
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Characters
 Madame & Monsieur Valmonde

Kind, morally exalted, responsible

 Armand Aubigny’s father

Indulgent, easygoing

 Désirée

 Armand Aubigny

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Beautiful, gentle, affectionate, sincere, The idol of Valmonde
Obedient to her husband
Cruel, strict, cold-hearted, irresponsible Quotations
 The woman( Zandrine) bowed her turbaned head majestically," Mais si,
Madame." (Page 91)
She scanned the baby narrowly, then looked as searchingly at Zandrine, whose face was turned to gaze across the fields.(Page 91)
 Young Aubigny’s rule was a strict one, too, and under it his negros had forgotten to be gay, as they had been during the old master 's easygoing and indulgent lifetime. (Page 90)
 “My mother, they tell me I am not white. Armand has told me I am not white. For God’s sake tell them it is not true. You must know it is not true.
I shall die. I must die. I cannot be so unhappy, and live. (Page 92)
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