Kate Chopin's short story "Desire's Baby" tells how, Armand, a plantation owner struggles with his own identity through his child. Armand came from a wealthy family from France. Many years after he arrived from Paris he fell in love with Desiree "as if struck by a pistol shot" (Chopin 185). He then marries Desiree and they have a baby boy, this devastated their marriage. <Tab/>In the beginning of the story, Chopin …showed first 75 words of 324 total…

…showed last 75 words of 324 total…of these changes have to be brought to attention many times before a reader can absorb every morsel of it's meaning <Tab/>As the story develops Chopin brings us to a conflicting section of the story when the baby is only three months old. She describes how Desiree is awoken one morning by a disquieting suggestion. The blacks came from everywhere to see her baby and Armand's behavior changes once more.