Desiree's Baby Rhetorical Analysis

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The irony in this is that he is black. He does everything to steer away from any type of black blood in his family, but it is already there. He is cruel to his black slaves and marries a white woman to try and lean towards the race he so wishes to be a part of. However, if he does not know that he is black than he keeps having sex with women that he thinks are white and they keep spitting out black babies. In the story "Désirée’s Baby" he says to his wife, "the child is not white; it means that you are not white"(3). It is, in fact, the contrary. The child is black but only because the father is too. He compares Désirée’s hand to that of La Blanche's and implies that both hands are dark skinned. It is ironic because they are both white. They

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