What color is most often associated with the characters listed below? Cite an example phrase from the text. How is this related to the issue of identity?
a) Desiree
The young mother was recovering slowly, and lay full length, in her soft white muslins and laces, upon a couch.
A quick conception of all that this accusation meant for her nerved her with unwonted courage to deny it. “It is a lie; it is not true, I am white! Look at my hair, it is brown; and my eyes are gray, Armand, you know they are gray. And my skin is fair,” seizing his wrist. “Look at my hand; whiter than yours, Armand,” she laughed hysterically.
She was like a stone image: silent, white, motionless after she placed it there.
Desiree had not changed the thin white garment nor the slippers which she wore. Her hair was uncovered and the sun’s rays brought a golden gleam from its brown meshes.
Desiree's Baby
