Désirée

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fictional character literary character short story character

Désirée is the mysterious, adopted young woman at the center of Kate Chopin’s short story “Désirée’s Baby,” whose uncertain ancestry leads to tragedy in her marriage and family.

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Label Occurrences
Désirée canonical 4

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character ⓘ
literary character ⓘ
short story character ⓘ
accusedOf having African ancestry ⓘ
adoptedBy Madame Valmondé ⓘ
ancestryStatus unknown parentage ⓘ
appearsIn Désirée’s Baby ⓘ
associatedTheme miscegenation laws and taboos ⓘ
associatedWith Désirée’s Baby ⓘ
surface form: Désirée’s Baby (short story)
centralThemeInvolvement identity ⓘ
motherhood ⓘ
patriarchy ⓘ
race ⓘ
slavery ⓘ
createdBy Kate Chopin ⓘ
ethnicityStatus racially ambiguous ⓘ
familyName Valmondé ⓘ
fictionalUniverse Kate Chopin’s New Orleans and Creole stories ⓘ
surface form: Kate Chopin’s Louisiana
firstAppearedIn Désirée’s Baby ⓘ
firstPublicationAuthor Kate Chopin ⓘ
foundAs abandoned baby ⓘ
foundBy Monsieur Valmondé ⓘ
foundLocation gateway of the Valmondé estate ⓘ
gender female ⓘ
hasChild unnamed baby son ⓘ
languageOfWork English ⓘ
marriageOutcome tragic separation ⓘ
marriedTo Armand Aubigny ⓘ
medium prose ⓘ
narrativeRole protagonist ⓘ
nationality Louisianan (fictional) ⓘ
originalPublicationForm short story ⓘ
raisedBy Monsieur Valmondé ⓘ
relationshipToArmandAubigny wife ⓘ
relationshipToMadameValmondé adopted daughter ⓘ
residesAt L’Abri plantation ⓘ
settingPeriod antebellum American South ⓘ
storyConflictSource uncertain ancestry ⓘ
storyGenre Southern Gothic ⓘ
realist fiction ⓘ
suffersFrom social rejection ⓘ
symbolizes fragility of social status based on race ⓘ
victim of racial prejudice ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Désirée’s Baby → mainCharacter → Désirée ⓘ
Désirée’s Baby → protagonist → Désirée ⓘ
Monsieur Valmondé → adoptiveParentOf → Désirée ⓘ
Armand Aubigny → marriedTo → Désirée ⓘ