Literary Devices In Desiree's Baby By Kate Chopin

How important is it to know your race? How important is it if you're mixed? In the work “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin you will go through the story of a baby who’s race is of great controversy among many people. That baby will even get his mother kicked out from her husband's house. Throughout the book, Kate Chopin uses literary devices such as foreshadowing and suspense to make the story interesting and to keep her readers captivated.

Kate Chopin uses foreshadowing to tantalize the readers and make them interesting in what is to happen next. In the beginning of the story a relative of Desiree come over to see the child, “Madame Valmondé had never removed her eyes from the child. She lifted it and walked with it over to the window that