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“Desiree’s Baby” Character Analysis Outline Thesis: Through Armand Aubigny’s actions, it is noticeable that Armand is a character whose attitude changes depending on the situation. When Armand meets Desiree he falls passionately in love with her, because everything is perfect, but as soon as he realizes that their baby has black ethnicity, his attitude towards Desiree is hostile as well as cruel toward his slaves. I. After meeting Desiree, Armand does not care about Desiree’s obscure origin because he claims to love her with a great passion regardless of her mysterious past. A. “The passion that awoke in him that day, when he saw her at the gate, swept along like an avalanche, or like a prairie fire, or like anything that drives headlong over all obstacles.” B. Armand believes everything is perfect since he will marry the beautiful Desiree, and demonstrates compassion as he was “reminded that she was nameless, and "what did it matter out a name when he could give her one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana? C. When Armand was reminded of Desiree's obscure origin he "looked into her eyes and did not care." II. Marriage and the birth of their son softened Armand, but when the baby was three months old, something changed. A. "When he spoke to her, it was with averted eyes, from which the old lovelight seemed to have gone out." B. Now that Armand knows their baby is black he blames Desiree for it and he "absented himself from home; and when there avoided her presence and that of her child without excuse."

III. When Armand's and Desiree's baby is born he did not punish the slaves as he belives everything is perfect, but when he realizes their baby is of black ethnicity, his whole attitude towards them changes to how it used to be before he met Desiree. A. Desiree tells her mother that "he hasn't punished one of them - not one of them - since baby is born." B. Three months later and upon his realization that his baby is black, "the very spirit of Satan seemed suddenly to take hold of him in his dealings with the slaves."...