Desiree's Baby

When I began reading this story Iwas thinking oh this is nice but towards the end my perspective started to change. First it changed to anger then sadness then both at the same time.Why so emotional because this passage was just that.It began as a nice little story about a woman who was visiting her daughter and the baby.The woman was reminiscing on the past about she came to even have a daughter.The story goes on to talk about how the daughter whose name is Desiree was standing where she was found eighteen years ago was spotted and admired by a man named Armand Aubigny.It said that he fell in love with her from just seeing her as if struck by a pistol shot.Later on you find out that Desiree and Armand get married she moves to Armand's land and stays there.You then read that she has had a child and she's happy ,Armand is happy because it is a boy and, his slaves are happy because he is happy.Then the downfall comes you then read that when the baby was three months Desiree feels something in the air and it isn't love .She was lying in her bed one hot afternoon being fanned by a quadroon boy,her baby asleep on the bed.She was playing with her hair looking at her baby absent-minded when she looked at the slave boy and then her baby and then the boy and back and forth.Her husband entered the room she asked him why the baby looked the way it did he told her because he wasn't white because she wasn't white.She laughed and started naming a whole list of things that possibly meant she was white.Anyway the story goes on her mother sends for her Desiree kills herself and the baby and Armand finds out he is black. Now,you might say oh how sad yes I know but what i was more worried about is why did she kill herself and the baby?She really didn't have a reason but then again she didn't have a reason to live if she didn't know where she cam from.I just wanted to say that it was crazy how Armand automatically jumped to the conclusion that she wasn't white like he knew his whole bloodline.Evidently he didn't know enough.I also had the thought of why didn't she just go home with her mother but then again why would she her mother owned slaves as well.Desiree probably felt that oh if I'm black then the code doesn't apply to me anymore so anyone can do anything to me and my child as in make them slaves including her mother.Would her mother really do that? She could have and probably would have. Armand on the other hand must have wanted to die after pushing his wife to suicide .It must have hurt a lot to not have nothing when you had everything. And than there's Desiree oh how she must have felt to be taking from all that she thought she knew ,how she must have wanted to cry.I wanted to know what was her real reason for suicide besides not wanting tzo be unhappy was she scared for her baby,scared for her life or just thinking in general.If I don't know where I'm from how can I know where I am going comes to mind.