Having romantic thoughts were considered a luxury. Not to mention the preference of boys in Chinese society, as described in the chapter which confirms the hostility towards women, when Kingston reconstructs the suicide of her aunt concluding there “is some hope of forgiveness for boys” (393). If the baby were a boy, there may have been a possibility of the villagers’ mercy, but because it must have been a girl, her aunt committed double-suicide, in Kingston’s imagination. Additionally, Kingston criticizing her mother for the lack of explanations, due to her strict principle of merely speaking upon “necessity” and therefore never gaining clarity on her aunt’s background (385). In connection, Ferraro observes Kingston’s resentment towards her mother’s codes of conduct by proposing the problem
Having romantic thoughts were considered a luxury. Not to mention the preference of boys in Chinese society, as described in the chapter which confirms the hostility towards women, when Kingston reconstructs the suicide of her aunt concluding there “is some hope of forgiveness for boys” (393). If the baby were a boy, there may have been a possibility of the villagers’ mercy, but because it must have been a girl, her aunt committed double-suicide, in Kingston’s imagination. Additionally, Kingston criticizing her mother for the lack of explanations, due to her strict principle of merely speaking upon “necessity” and therefore never gaining clarity on her aunt’s background (385). In connection, Ferraro observes Kingston’s resentment towards her mother’s codes of conduct by proposing the problem