It’s amazing how one tiny or huge decision can have such a huge effect. How so much trouble could be avoided if a simple factor was known. As in “Desiree’s Baby”, Kate Chopin wrote about how Armand saw African Americans in such a negative way and treated them in such a terrible way. He saw himself superior than African Americans, that when he gained knowledge that he was also was African American he was devastated at himself. Armand ‘s parent was wrong by keeping the truth of his racial heritage because his attitude could have been different towards African American if he knew the truth about his background.
Armand was raised believing that he was white and at that time most white people saw themselves superior of African Americans. So that
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Until he found out that his child wasn’t white. “it means,” he answered lightly,” that the child is not white, it means that you are not white.”(Chopin). Armand was very angry that his child was not white that he accused his wife of not being white as well. He did not want to hold the baby nor have anything to do with them. That he basically asked them to leave his house and his life. If only he had known that his wife was not the reason their child was brown, however he was. If only he knew his true identify from a young age, he would have lived this situation differently. But he wasn’t aware so he had so much pride in being white, that he saw African Americans beneath him. As written in the short story,” Moreover he no longer loved her, because of the unconscious injury she had brought upon his home and his name. “(Chopin). Armand sees negroes as shameful race because of the society he was raised in and from the unawareness of his mother race. I strongly believe that if Armand knew that his mother was African American he would have continued loving his wife as well as she would have loved him in