True Love Cannot Be Broken: Desiress's Baby by Kate Chopin

“Désirée’s Baby” by Kate Chopin is the epitome of amazing love. This story can be compared to “The Story of an Hour”, as well as “The Storm”. However, rather than highlight her character’s sexuality or internal emotional conflicts, Chopin manages to make a gradual impact on Desiree’s strength, courage, and pride; elements that made me fall in love with the story of a woman who is a victim of assumptions, lies, and racism. Unconditional love is the predominant characteristic that allows both Desiree and her baby to survive her husband’s narrow-minded personality, and indirectly allows them to escape a cruel reality. Chopin story is a realistic example of a woman’s struggles.

Hearts, the color red, kisses, and romanticism are key words that remind me of the word love. However, as I ask myself what do I really know about love? Instantly, my inner science geek says that love stimulates someone’s emotional health, but my sentimental self replies by reminding me of my mother. Once I connect the two concepts, I realized that my mother’s love is my definition of unconditional love. At the end, I know she will always support me and simply be there for me. Unconditional love is the kind of love that cannot be measure, it does not need constant reminders of affection, and it strength can overcome anything.

Chopin provides an explicit example of this type of love, “Madame Valdome abandoned every speculation, but the one that Désirée had sent to her by a beneficent Providence to be the child of her affection, seeing that she was without child of the flesh” (Literature for Composition, 75). In other words, Madame Valdome considers Désirée as a gift from God that is send to full field their lives with joy and love. Regardless of how she arriv...

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...disgrace; the love of her mother overcame all of her previous beliefs. Desiree’s mother proof her that unconditional love cannot be broken.

Now, Désirée is alone with a baby that she gave birth to. It perhaps does not look like her, but it is her gift from God. I believed this story embraces the value of true love; Désirée went from an ignorant rich white young woman to a strong woman who will do anything for her child. She left a life full of prejudices to give her little boy a life with meaning, and love. Moreover, Chopin’s last paragraph embraces the same concept, “Our dear Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery” (77). Armand’s mother sacrifices her desire to raise her child to give him a live of freedom. This is another proof that love is selfless, strong, and unbreakable.