Irony And Irony In Desiree's Baby By Kate Chopin

I want to analyze this story. It called "Desiree's Baby". Why i choose this story? because when i read this story, it was ironic and amazing. According to Virginia Wilkerson Kate Chopin wrote the short story, ''Desiree's Baby,'' in 1892, 27 years after slavery in America was abolished. I want to analyze the interesting part in this story which is the irony. I think irony is something different between expectations and reality like the opposite. Desiree's Baby tells about a girl called Desiree found by her adoptive parents, Monsieur and Madame Valmonde. Eighteen years later, there is a boy called Armand Aubigny had fallen in love with her. Armand is a racist man. Then they have married and have a baby boy. One day after Desiree give a birth, there is something wrong with the baby. Armand knew that is the baby boy is not white like his mother, Desiree. After the incident, Armand want Desiree to go and he burns all his wife's belongings. When Armand looking for Desiree's stuff, Armand found the letter from his mather to his father. The letter tells Armand if his mother belongs to the race that

The L'Abri belonging to the aubigny's. Madame Valmonde enter into L'Abri and she shuddered at the first sight of it. It was a sad looking place. From that statement "it was a sad looking place", it makes me think about the place was ugly, dirty, and gloomy. I can feel about madame valmonde's feeling. It was terrible. I think this statement is situational irony. Why this irony called stuational irony? because it is not like the expectations. According to Maria Howard, situational irony is powered by the incongruity between the expectation and the actual outcome. Madame Valmonde should be happy to meet her grandson but instead he was sad with the condition of the Aubigny's shelter. On the other hand, this is ironic part for Desiree too. Because Desiree have to raising her son and live in a bad place and gloomy. This is the ironic part for Madame