2) should Desiree have returned to her family home with her baby? In the short story “Desiree’s Baby,” written by Kate Chopin, tragedy comes early in the marriage with the birth of Armand and Desiree’s first child. Although no one seemed to notice at first, by the time the child was three months old, Armand noticed a change in the child. “When the baby was about three months old, Desiree awoke one day to …showed first 75 words of 800 total…

…showed last 75 words of 800 total…it was her with the African American decent. The child may also feel that his parent splitting up was his fault because he is “mulatto”. As I said before there are cons to every pro. As far as Desiree is concerned it’s probably better that she left Armand because he was mentally abusive to her. But in the long run the child’s future is going to suffer from the absence of his father.