Desirees Baby

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Love is a very strong word. Desiree’s Baby is a sad love story. If love is suppose

to conquer all, then why did Armand let his wife go? I think he loved her but didn’t

realize the mistake he had done till the end. I bet he felt pretty stupid. I believe love can

conquer all, even race.

To begin with, the strongest conflict I found in this story was man vs. machine.

The racism in the society at that time was so strong that it leads Armand to let his wife

go. Society was what caused them to separate. The story also has man vs. man. He has an

argument with his wife not being white He tells her that he does want her to leave. The

story also has man vs. himself. Armand is torn between how he feels for Desiree and him

thinking that she is not white. He let’s himself feel this way. The characterization in the

story, I think is poor. The writer never described any of the characters. I knew they were

white. I found out in the end that Armand is the one who was not completely white. I

knew he didn’t really love his wife if he let something get between them. I knew Desiree

and Armand had a baby. She really loved him. I never got a mental picture of how they

looked. I found the diction to be formal but hard to understand. It had a lot of words I had

to look up in the dictionary. For example, I looked up words like quadroon, riveted,

layette, corbeille and espousal. I had to read the story twice to understand it really good.

Sometimes I had to go back a little and read a sentence or even a paragraph over. When I

started to read it, it didn’t make any sense to me. After reading it over and understanding


it I liked it. I grew upset with Armand and felt sorry for Desiree. There was a little

dialogue. I think it helped develop the story especially when he told her she wasn’t white.

That told me what was wrong with him. When she asked him id he wanted her to...