The Era Of Realism In The Jungle, By Kate Chopin

The era of Realism began during America’s post-Civil War time during which the country was trying to reconstruct the South from its now non-slavery state. The use of Realism allowed authors to showcase the true light of America’s problems that dealt with segregation, remaining discrimination, and feminism. Segregation was a serious problem in America, as not only were blacks segregated still, but races from all over the world who immigrated to America were segregated just as much. In “The Jungle”, it is stated “…there was an agent who helped them, but he proved a scoundrel and, and got them into a trap with some officials, and cost them a good deal of their precious money…” (Sinclair 471) and “…when they said ‘Chicago,’ people no longer pointed in some direction, but
In “Desiree’s Baby,” Armand answered to Desiree’s question as the following “It means… that the child is not white; it means that you are not white.” (Chopin 1075) In the story, Armand is introduced as a slave holder, but he is shown to be generous and kind to his slaves. This is proven to be false, as Armand is only a generous slave holder due to the joy of having a child with his wife. He soon sees, to his own conclusion, that his child is not a pure-White human and the only person who is to be blamed for this is his wife as he believes he is a pure-White man himself. This belief comes from the fact that people who have a heritage that point to the fact that they have a small fraction of a different race, black in this situation, makes the person the small percentage. In this case, Armand believes he has a black child and married a black woman. Many people had this mindset, and still do, and continued to discriminate people whether they looked or were biologically a part of the frowned-upon