Armand, who is a slave owner, lived in Paris until he was eight. After living in Paris, they moved to Louisiana after her mother died in Paris. One day he saw a woman and immediately fell in love with her. This woman was Desiree, she doesn't know who or where her real family is. Armand is madly in love and doesn't care where he comes from. He doesn't care what her real name is, "when he could give her one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana." When they had a child, Armand was so proud and happy that someone could carry on his name and legacy. Even Desiree could see it in Armand; he “is the proudest father in the parish, I think, especially because it is a boy, who bears his name; even if he says no, that he would have loved a girl too. But I know it's not true." As the child grows, he begins to show signs of being a mulatto, that is, a child who has one white parent and one black parent; this makes Armand furious. He wonders how Desiree could betray him like this. Desiree foreshadows that it was not she who passed on the colored genes to the child; she said: “It's a lie; you know I am! And my skin is fair. Look at my hand, whiter than yours , Armand could have been a slave too. He no longer loves Desiree; he told her to leave, along with the child, because she has dishonored his last name. Armand later finds a letter from his mother to his father in which she tells him that she is grateful that Armand will never know that she was of the same race as the slaves. He now knows that he assumed that Desiree was the one with the genes that did this, since they don't know where she came from, and "unfortunately, do some deductions may have