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Interpretation of Literature Midterm 2. The short story Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin is told using the slave settings of the 1800s. A time when the blacks took care of the farming and tended to the white folks needs. In this particular story it was a rich well known couple who had fallen in love and married. The plot begins by a family taking in a found baby and raising it. The girl turns into a beautiful woman and catches the eye of a well to do man whom was educated in Paris. Although she does not have a known surname he marries her anyway. They then have a child, which causes the conflict in the story. The child is of African American decent and the husband becomes angry and wants nothing to do with the child or wife because he believes that she is of such decent. The conflict now is his love for her or the greatness of his family name and the white kind. He chooses the pride of himself. Which plays into the plot which now makes the girl call to her only known mother