The struggle depicted in The Color Purple and Désirée's Baby The Color Purple written by Alice Walker and Désirée's Baby by Kate Chopin were written at different times , but there are many similarities. about how women struggled. Both stories depict women who experienced hardship, and through it all, they continued to demonstrate unconditional love. In both stories there are quite similar cases of children. This shows that novels can span completely different time periods and still discuss the same things. Unconditional love within families can sometimes be enough to keep people alive during difficult times. This is true between sisters. In The Color Purple, Nettie and Cellie's unconditional love helped them deal with the problems they were both facing. There, unconditional love was demonstrated through Cellie's incessant writing in hopes that one of her letters would reach. At no point did she give up. This love helped Nettie live with her verbally and physically abusive husband, Albert. Désirée, on the other hand, had no blood ties with the women she called her mother; Madame Valmonde still had enormous love for her. When Désirée’s husband told her to leave, her mother said to her: “Go back to Valmonde; return to your mother who loves you. This shows that it does not take blood to create a strong bond, whatever happens; unconditional love will always help you get through tough times. In the different times when the two stories were written, the way African Americans were treated was quite similar. In 1909 when The Color Purple took place, it was before women were really seen as who they are and were seen as just a caretaker and a maid. It didn't help that Nettie was black because she was considered stupid when in reality she was intelligent. During her years of marriage to Albert, she learned to read with the help of her sister Cellie. Slavery was taking place around the time Desiree's Baby was written. It was a horrible thing to be African American and a woman at that time. When Desiree was thought to be African American, her husband avoided her and wanted nothing to do with her..