Title: Understanding Fiction
Subjects: freedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment, meaning of love, short story, short stories, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles, quadroons, racism
Places: Mallard residence, Louisiana, L’Abri
People: Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards, Armand Aubigny, Désirée, Madame Valmont, Sandrine, La Blanche
Time periods: 19th century, Antebellum era