Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" and Social Boundries

Separate, but Equal: White Lies and Local Color The specific attributes of social, political, and cultural implications in both literal and metaphorical boundary crossing distinguish Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" as a work of absolute realism. In therapy, a boundary is the edge of appropriate behavior in a given situation. In a boundary crossing, the therapist steps out of the "usual framework" in some way, but this action neither exploits nor harms the patient; indeed, it …showed first 75 words of 1030 total…

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