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Kate Chopin—“Désirée’s Baby”
1892
PLOT:
Madam Valmondé riding over to see Désirée baby on a beautiful day
hadn’t seen her in 4 weeks
remembers -
Désirée = foundling = an abandoned baby of unknown parentage
toddler
left “in the shadow of the big stone pillar (at gateway to plantation)
found by Monsieur Valmondé (out riding)
awoke in his arms cried for “Dada” ( love at 1st sight
explanations:
wandered there
“prevailing belief” = left by Texans (canvas-covered wagon seen on the ferry)
Madam V: sent by God
given to loved by Madam Valmondé as child she never had
TIME JUMP #1:
18 years later
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