When comparing "The Luck of Roaring Camp" to "Desiree's Baby" there are many similarities. The most obvious of them being both writers use a child as a certain symbol. The child is used to bring out certain qualities, good or bad, in a man. In "The Luck of Roaring camp" the child is used in a good way, while in "Desiree's Baby" the child is used in a bad way. The children in both stories are used as symbols to help convey a message as how males can changed with the birth of a child, how someone can go from bad to good or good to bad within seconds.
             As "The Luck of Roaring Camp" starts there is a conflict. It begins with the males speaking badly about women, throughout this story it is evident that men use women and that they aren't needed. "Perhaps the less said of her the better. She was a coarse, and, it is to be feared, a very sinful woman. But at that time she was the only woman in Roaring Camp, and was just then lying in sore extremity, when she most needed the ministration of her own sex". "Desiree's Baby" starts off in a different way. The story has a noble beginning and slowly begins to go downhill from that point. Desiree needed her husband and they both loved each other very much.
             The child in "The Luck of Roaring Camp" is the son of a prostitute. The men of Roaring Camp treat women as sex objects and make it very clear that they aren't needed. This is noted within the first lines of the book. "But at that time she was the only woman in Roaring Camp...". In "Desiree's Baby" the story begins with the baby crying for his father. "The little one awoke in his arms and began to cry for 'Dada'". This would suggest that the father loved the child very much and was a big part of the child's life. That there was a good family relationship and he respected...