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I read another short story, Desiree’s Baby. Basically Desiree and a man named Armand fall in love and get married. They move in together and have a child. For a few years they are really happy together, but then Armand becomes very harsh and unloving and is always away. Desiree didn’t know why until they argue and she finds out that Armand thinks she is half black [even thought she is fairer skinned then he], also making his son part black. In the very last pages she takes her baby and walks away into open plains, much like the suicide in The Awakening. The twist is, Armand finds an old letter from his mother to his father, saying this: “But above all, I thank God that we arranged out lives so that our dear Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery.”
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It was a good, sad story. Thinking of more thesis statements has been hard though. I cant think of a “so what” part for this one: Kate Chopin’s female characters are calm, caring, misunderstood and without exception have a hidden passion. Her male characters are usually kind, or blind, and un-understanding
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