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Re-submitted by Anita Anderson
February 15, 2003
1Racism in the Old South as seen in Kate Chopin’s "Desiree’s Baby"
With the surprise ending to Kate Chopin’s "Desiree’s Baby" the full impact of what racism in the old south was capable of and the impact racism had on all the characters in the story was brought to light. This story is much more than it appears to be in the beginning; it moves from the story of a young orphaned girl falling in love and having a baby to the much darker subject of racism. Every character in this story was touched by racism in some way. ...
After reading the last lines of the story " our dear Armand will never know that his mother who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery" we understand the impact racism had on Armand’s father, Monsieur Aubigny (31). After taking a trip to France and falling in love with a French woman, Monsieur Aubigny does not return to his own home, a large plantation in Louisiana, but remains in France until after his wife dies and consequently his son is eight years old. ... With his wife being of the race cursed with slavery,
1Monsieur Aubigny could live away from home free of the laws and labeling of the time and traditions of the old south. ... "Young Aubigny’s rule was a strict one, too, and under it his negroes had forgotten how to be gay, as they had been during the old master’s easy-going and indulgent lifetime" (29).
Approximate Word count = 1168
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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