Living life with the absence of a mother figure is one of the most significant factors that has majorly influenced the outcome of her life. Having a mother to guide, encourage, and mold a child is essential in developing their character, and as Baby does not have one, it has prevented her from learning valuable lessons in life. Due to this, Baby is left in the care of her single father, Jules, who has always been involved with narcotics, and “trie[s] to be a mother, but [has] always kind of fallen short on the mark” (O’Neill, 186). She recognizes the fact that her father is unable to take care of himself, and is not considered a true authority figure due to his immature tendencies and vacuous decisions. Baby is, hence, forced to take on the parental role, and is deprived from her childhood and the nurturing environment that is necessary in order for a child to properly flourish. This forces her to learn how to be self reliant and independent, however, without guidance, Baby turns to what she knows best and succumbs to the life of drugs, alcohol and prostitution —a fate that was inevitable due to her circumstance and the external factors that surround her. As Baby does not comprehend the feeling of unconditional love that children are supposed to feel from their parents, she searches for love in all the wrong places. When she meets Alphonse, a pimp in her…
In “Desiree’s Baby”, Desiree is just the wife and the mother of Armand’s child that he ends up denying. Women did not have a say so at all during this time. Armand is the very strict slave owner, but he is also the “breadwinner”, but he makes Desiree feel complete when he is showing her his soft side. When he starts to disown the baby that’s when Desiree becomes weak because he blames her for him being mixed blood. That is when she tells her mom “My mother, they tell me I am not white. Armand tells 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” (Chopin 5). After Armand tells her to take the baby and leave, Desiree becomes depressed and does not want to live…
With the use of many symbols in her story, Chopin gives the audience insight into the depths of her work. Examples of this symbolism include the stone pillar, La Blanche’s cabin, and the bonfire. The stone pillar that Desiree was found lying upon by Armand when he had first “fallen in love with her”(1) was used to show her desolate background. Armand uses this symbol as a sense of safety because he knows he will be able to use Desiree’s unknown decent to blame her for a future failure or to cover up his own mistakes. At the end of the piece, we find out that the baby is mixed and Armand blames Desiree. Neither of them knows who really has African American in their blood but he automatically assumes that it is her because no one knows who her real parents are being that she is adopted.…
Daniel Quinn contrasts the point of view on the Takers and the Leavers by having the Takers talk about the Leavers and the Leavers talking about the Leavers. The Leavers are the hunter and gathers and the Takers are the agriculturalists. The Takers believe that being a hunter and gather is very tough. They believe hunter-gathers are terrified, hungry, and desperate. The agriculturalists also believe the lions, wolves, and the tigers are out to get to kill the hunter-gatherers.…
The delight that Désirée was able to find was with a little baby and a man she fell in love with. As the mother of Désirée begins to speak about the baby and how he has changed “Désirée’s face became suffused with a glow that was happiness itself” (243), and what this shows how delighted she feels with her baby. Another time she shows joyousness in the story is when it states “This is what made the gentle Désirée so happy, for she loved him desperately” (243), when stating this it is showing how having the baby has made her husband a kinder person which makes her happy. When the baby was born Desiree’s husband became happier “Oh mamma, I’m so happy; it frightens me”(243), saying this it helps us…
In the era Chopin wrote "Desiree's Baby" sexism was a major point in the lives of women, permitting them from being able to speak for themselves. Chopin later reveals that Armand was the one who truly was of black dissent and he was the one who had passed those genes down to the baby. But Desiree who has all the right in the world to defend herself cannot simply because of her sex. She is accused of the "unconscious injury she had brought upon [Armand's] home and his name"(244). Although Chopin states that Desiree is whiter than Armand and the baby, because of the setting of the story she cannot defend her honor in saying she isn’t black. Peel writes that, "Desiree is immersed in her husband's value system and never stands up to [Armand], not…
Alex and his coworker get their club project underway, and Isabelle, who left Alex in the early morning after their one night stand without so much as her last name or phone number, is out of his life. However, Isabelle appears three months later with news that she is pregnant and he is the father of the child she is carrying. Alex is surprised to say the least and starts a “women’s right to choose” speech. Isabelle informs him that she intends to keep the child and that she expects nothing from him whatsoever. She felt that tell him that he was going to be a father was the honorable thing to do. She ends up leaving his house in a hurry after realizing she has interrupted a meeting he was having. Alex ponders for a moment after seeing her leaving and decides to chase Isabelle. He finds her sitting at the Hoover Dam and he tells her that he really didn't know how to react in the circumstance but he would like to do what is right.…
The reader can start to feel this child like attitude Desiree has in the beginning when Madame Valmonde thought that “it seem[ed] but yesterday that Desiree was little more than a baby herself”(Chopin 1). This sentence foreshadow and hints at Desiree's thoughts and actions being based on what others think of her. One example of this is how she lets Armand decide her happiness. In the story it states, “when he frowned she trembled, but loved him. When he smiled, she asked no greater blessing of God” (Chopin 1). As it says in the quote Desiree based her joy on Armands actions and feelings. This relates to the end of the book when she leaves the town and is never being seen again leading the reader to believe she died or went into hiding; Desiree possibly killed her and the baby because Armand assumed and she could not live with others thinking badly of her. Another example of this is when she writes her mom asking her to deny that she was black but when her mother wrote back saying, "My own Desiree: Come home to Valmonde; back to your mother who loves you. Come with your child” (Chopin 2). Which shows that Madame Valmonde also thought that Desiree was black. The reader can infer that because of two people's assumption that she was black, Desiree started to feel low in worth leading her to possibly kill herself. These examples in the story show that Desiree was dependent on others inside of being self…
She seemed to be very dependent on the man that she could not make up her mind. She always has to ask before she decides from ordering her drinks to what to do with her pregnancy. However, she seems as if she had made up her own mind in the end that she’ll be moving forward with her life with him or without him.…
‘Desiree’s Baby’ is a short story written by Kate Chopin. This story highlights some sense of consequence and karma as the main theme. It also tends to explore the problems of a man’s pride who is trying to overcome the love he has got for his race and wife. The purpose of this essay is to examine some of the major themes; racial superiority and inferiority, blind and deep love, and mystery, and how they have changed everything in the entire story.…
In “ Desiree’s Baby” Desiree decided it would be easier to walk into a swamp and kill herself rather than live. This is wrong because she hurt her family and she could have became happy again if she didn't kill herself. In the passage it says,” My own Desiree: Come home to Valmonde; back to your mother who loves you.” This shows how much her family cared and loved for her that they'd still love her even if she was biracial. This also shows how hurt they were when they heard that she had committed suicide because they loved her so much. If she would have went back to Valmonde she could have lived a happy life.…
done something they themselves are proud of is a form of abandonment and yes, that can cause shame.…
“Desiree’s Baby” is a story about race, in Kate Chopin’s story. The reader begins to be aware that there is a mystery about that child’s parentage, when Desiree gives birth to her child. Besides Desiree’s racist husband, he finds out that she was born from black parents. The story of Desiree’s Baby is about race, it is a mystery about the child’s parentage.…
A dream is a elated sensation of a highly valuable goal that people imagine in their mind during sleep. Sometimes dreams can affect someone's actions when they have their mindset their dream and they don't care about what's happening in reality. Which sometimes causes loneliness in their life because they are pushing people away for that one dream. Loneliness makes dreams impossible to come true like George, Lennie, and Curley's wife. They all had dreams that never came true because of loneliness.…
When Remy meets Dexter, she is at a crossroads in her life. She has just graduated high school and is about to head to Stanford University in the fall. Her mother is about to get married to her fifth husband and Remy is praying that this one will last. Dexter has come to town with his band that moves around every so often and is determined to capture Remy’s heart. Once he has, Remy is decided that their relationship will only be temporary and that she will leave for Stanford in the fall with no strings attached. When it came to love, Remy did not believe in it due to the examples that had been set by her mother. Dexter, in his own unspoken way, begins to break the cold exterior of her heart and even when they were broken up, she realizes she has begun to love him. Even after her mother’s fifth marriage fails but not by her mother’s doing, Remy realizes that her perspective was all wrong. Love is not the same for everyone and that when one takes a chance when it comes to love, it can lead to something amazing.…