(this also shows that at the time this was written there was still the idea that animals or other forms of life did not have feelings). The story also shows another superiority complex that of the feeling (of white people) that they where better then black people. This is rampant in the story and very little attention is paid to it, it uses derogatory words such as yellow to describe people. .
Armand is a very emotional person, who express 's his emotions a lot. Armand 's nature could be compared to a very spoilt little child (which he probably was) consider - he takes out his anger on his servants or slaves, he has a nature described as exacting. One thing that is surprising about the story is that neither Armand nor Desiree noticed that the baby is not black until after everyone else. This story was made a bit surreal by the very fact of Desiree 's origin, which seems to be very abnormal even in the real world. We can assume that Desiree was very scared of Armand and that may be based on prior experiences with Armand. We can assume this from where it says, When he frowned she trembled although in the 19th century women where still considered lessors by men.
There are many things that could have made Armand think that his hypocrisy he bet his wife on where true, it could have been the fact that he was considered a pure bred blue blooded person with a name that was one of the oldest and proudest in the whole of Louisiana and Desiree was a adopted child with obscure origins. Armands hypocrisy was backed up by Madame Valmonde in her letter to Desiree, in the letter she doesn 't even validate Desiree 's question with an answer, she just ignored it as if it was rhetorical. Also there is another contrast in the emotions of Armand, since is says that He (Armand) looked into her eyes and didn 't care (about her origins) then later he rejects her because he thinks now that she defiantly is black.
