Desiree's Baby
In Kate Chopin’s story, “Desiree’s Baby,” she illustrates how people’s ignorance can lead to the misery of other people. Armand’s own ignorance led him to believe that every other race was inferior to his. The irony of the situation is that Armand’s hatred towards black people causes him to suffer when he realizes that he is black himself. What Armand fails to realize is that it was not the curse of slavery that destroyed him, but it was his own whiteness that destroyed him. Growing up as a child, Armand believed his race to be superior amongst others. He treated the slaves cruelly and as if the were not human. According to Chopin, “Young Aubigny’s rule was a strict one, too, and under it his Negroes had forgotten how to be gay” (178). Later on, when Armand marries Desiree’, he becomes a better person.