Character: Armand Aubigny
owner of L'Abri
Character: Desiree
a foundling, wife of Armand
Character: Madame Valmonde
the women who raised Desiree
Character: Zandrine
a servant at L'Abri
Character: La Blanche
a slave
Time and Setting
takes place in Louisiana before the American Civil War
Themes
Racism.-defined by the Merriam Webster dictionary as "a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race."
The story was written on:
November 24, 1892
Published in:
Vogue on January 14, 1893, the first of nineteen Kate Chopin stories that Vogue published.
Reprinted in:
Chopin's collection of stories Bayou Folk in 1894.
