The Victorian era was made up of strict codes of gender behaviors, and was a model for morality and propriety. During this time, a corset is a symbol that represents the European perfection that was expected from woman in this era. The corest gave emphasis to the chest, hips, and butt which gave the sexual objectivity about a woman. In Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin, the main character, Desiree, was given away as a baby, and was founded upon a stone wall. Desiree has now given birth to a baby whose complexion matches not of the parents. The husband, Armand Aubigny, blamed Desiree for why the baby, looks this way, and kicked her out of the house. Through the lens of feminism, Chopin reinscribes the idea of victorian morality by using different
