Desiree's Baby Mood

“Desiree’s Baby” is a short story by Kate Chopin.The setting of the story is in the mid 19th century before the Civil War during slavery. The story is about a wife (Desiree) and husband(Armand) who had as dark skin son. Armand was mad because he thought the wife had the gene in her background since it was unknown who her parents were. In the end Armand found out that he was the one who had a black relative in his background, his mother was part black.In “Desiree’s Baby”, Kate Chopin uses tone, irony and mood to develop the theme of the story. The tone is the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation. The tone in the story is intense since the reader doesn’t know what’s going to occur in the story. Anger is the most intense part in the middle of the short story . In “Desiree’s Baby,” Kate Chopin states, “Then a strange, an awful change in her husband’s manner,which she dared not ask him to explain.When he spoke to her,it was with averted eyes, from which the old love- light seemed to have gone out.He absented himself from home; and when there, avoided her presence and that of her child, without excuse”(2). This shows Armands behavior has changed from being the best dad in the world to the worst dad. It seems like if he lost his love for his
“Young Aubigny’s rule was a strict one,too, and under it his negroes had forgotten how to be gay, as they had been during the old master’s easy going and indulgent lifetime”(Chopin 1). Chopin is telling the reader that the negroes were not happy with the new master they had gotten. In this time period slaves were beaten,tortured, and worked to their last