In the short story, "Desiree’s Baby," by Kate Chopin, the author discusses Armand’s love for Desiree and the type of man he is. The readers can pick up how racist Armand is by the way he acts toward his slaves and later on his wife and son. In "Desiree’s Baby," the theme is racism. The background with this short story is slavery. "Desiree’s Baby" was written in 1892 after slavery was abolished but in story takes place during the era of slavery. Racism was really awful at this time and it was very common to see racist people in America. Armand lived in Louisiana with his wife and son and was a slave owner. One type of figurative language Chopin’s uses is foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is events that the characters are soon prepared for. In "Desiree’s Baby" the foreshadowing is when Monsieur Valmondé questions if Armand should marry Desiree because of her unknown heritage. Desiree was dropped off by people heading to Texas because they could not take care of her anymore. When they dropped her off it they left her in the shadows of enormous rock. The rock was a symbol to the readers of a tombstone, saying that the baby who was Desiree was dead. Desiree happens to be the dynamic character in the story since she is the character that changes the most. In the beginning she is happy and carefree but towards the end she is ashamed of her husband because he is really angry at her and Desiree commits suicide. Another kind of figurative language that leads up to the theme is irony. “The irony of Armand’s insistence on a dualistic view is stressed by the fact that his world is filled with mixed racial types like Le Blanche and that he himself is mixed” (Elfenbein). The static character in this story is Armand who was really racist and a mean person even though he seems to change for a while, he soons goes back to his normal self. Armand was mixed in his race, and that upset him a lot, and that is why he is so mean because he doe