"Desiree's Baby"
Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" is a story of love - a genuine love and a superficial love, a story witch reveals an uglier side of human nature and relations. The relationship between Desiree and her adoptive parents portrays true love, based on affection and free of prejudice. Desiree is a toddler when she is found by Mousier Valmande at the gate of his estate in Louisiana. She is taken in and raised by her adoptive parents, who grow to genuinely love her, despite her obscure origin. Madam Valmande considers Desiree to be a gift of Providence, because she can not have any children of her own, and showers the girl with real affection. In response to such true love Desiree grows up to be not only beautiful physically but "affectionate and sincere",
Despite the accusation she remains her mother's child as before and her mother To be with her he left his plantation and his important name in Louisiana and went to live and rules his slaves with a strict hand. Armand's love is fueled by passion that sweeps like an "avalanche" like "fire", "over all the obstacles". At the time before their marriage, Armand declares that he does not care about Desiree's origin or her lack of a name. "What did it matter about a name when he could give her one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana?" Soon after their marriage, Armand's love is put to the test, which he fails. Desiree has a
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Approximate Word count = 515
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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