DESIREES BABY
"Some Views of Women as Expressed through Setting and Characterization in "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Desirees Baby" Did you ever notice how all of womens problems begin with men? ... In the two short stories, "Desirees Baby", and "The Yellow Wallpaper", women are portrayed as weak creatures of vanity with shallow or absent personalities, who are dependent on men for their livelihood, and even their sanity. ... In "Desirees Baby", the plantation is bordered by a field and a bayou, isolating its inhabitants from the world. ... Desirees home "was a sad looking place, for which many years had not known the gentle presence of a mistress…The roof came down steep and black like a cowl…big solemn oaks grew close to it, and their thick-leafed, far-reaching branches shadowed it like a pall" (141). ... However, upon finding that his baby is not the Aryan bundle of joy hed thought it to be, the racially charged remark that Aubigny makes to his distraught wife is " I want you to go" (143).