Kate Chopin's short story, "Desiree's Baby," begins by explaining how
             Desiree comes to live with Monsieur and Madame Valmondeâ€"Monsieur Valmonde
             finds her as a child sleeping on his property, and he and his wife decide
             to raise her. When Desiree grows up, Armand Aubigny falls in love with
             her, and despite Monsieur Valmonde's warnings that Desiree's origins are
             unknown, Armand marries her and they have a baby boy. At first, they are
             both extremely proud and happy, and Armand even treats his Negro slaves
             kindly because he is in such a joyful state of mind. However, Armand's
             manner changes when the baby is three months old: he stops looking into
             Desiree's eyes when he speaks to her, he treats the slaves awfully, and he
             seems to fall out of love with Desiree. Desiree is miserable and cannot
             understand why her husband has changed. One day she is in her room looking
             at her sleeping child and she notices that his skin color is darker than
             "normal;" she asks Armand what it means, and he tells her that the child is
             not white, so therefore she must not be white, and he sends her away and
             burns all of her things, only to read an old letter that reveals it was his
             own mother who was black. The moment Armand presumed Desiree to be of
             Negro origins, he wanted nothing to do with her or his own son because to
             him, being black was completely inferior; however, the irony is that it was
             him all along who had a black parent, sending Chopin's message that judging
             another human being based on his or her skin color is completely immoral
             The central character in this story is Desiree, who grows up to be a
             "beautiful and gentle, affectionate and sincere" woman with a fair
             complexion and long, silky brown hair. Desiree is happy and gleeful, is
             kind to her slaves, and wants to please her husband in any way. Chopin
             writes of Armand and Desiree: "When he frowned she trembled, b...