o.o
Well, I think the title is trying to make the reader think even before they read the piece that the baby is purely the woman's, and not the man's at all..
As in, the baby is born black, and her husband blames her (Désirée) completely for it. She was able to take the blame because she was found alone as a child with 'uncertain parentage', and the husband was
supposedly born from a noble all-white family.
In actuality, the husband's father had traveled to France and met a black woman who he fell in love with, married and had a child (Désirée's husband) with.. So Désirée kills herself with the baby because her husband has condemned her and HIS child, thinking that SHE was black and was "bringing shame" upon her husbands
pure name and lineage.
oAo
The story is about four pages, I think, nao @
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(Also, it makes more sense with the accents: Not desire as in lust, but a name: Désirée's Baby)
Okay. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm just going to write whatever crap I can come up with >.< It's better to get a grade I think and have the teacher think you're a really crappy writer than fail the class.....
But oh my GOD I wish I had word!!!!
-cries more-