Desiree's Baby By Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin is one of the best American female writers in modernism literature in nineteenth century. Most of her writings are on women because of her time gender discrimination is still very popular. During that period, the position of women in society is dominant over men and they do not have their own voices. Their lives seem to depend only on the men, the husbands. “Desiree’s Baby,” “The Story of an Hour,” and “The Storm,” are costly three stories of Chopin through which author wants to revealed dissatisfaction with the society in which women are despised, Chopin also gives an overview of the impact the deepening of social status for women and their concept of marriage and family.

In the story “The story of an hour”, through the image

The reader easily recognizes that Desiree’s point of views about life are as being an obeyed wife, so she depends on her husband, Armand, for most of the time. Desiree really cares about her husband feelings and was always in sympathy with the husband. She is cheerful when Armand is happy and when Armand is sorrowful, she is just “miserable enough to die” (Chopin. 244). The setting of the story is in a society where people look very low and strict with those not of ethnicity, skin color. Desiree’s baby is the problem between her and her husband due to the baby is quadroon. According to Chopin “Moreover, he no longer loved her because of the conscious injury she had brought upon his home and his name”, Armand told Desiree he does not love her anymore because she is not white and she is being mixed blood as his assertion (245). Desiree is adopted by Valmondae family at really young age, she is very vague about her background so Desiree does not have enough grounds to prove that she is completely origin from white American. Her heart seems torn when her dear husband, Armand asks her to leave the house with her child. “She turned away like one stunned like a blow, and walked slowly towards the door, hoping he would call her back” (Chopin 245). She has never

Women lost many things after they are being married such as there is no freedom, everything is depending on husband, and every decision has to be confirm by husband. Living in a society that lacks fairness and respect for women, they have very little rights and privilege to decide their future. Armand in this story is dominant over Desiree, she is such his slave whom he uses when he needs. He does not recognize how much Desiree satisfies for him, how much love that she gives to