Sui Sin Far realizes that the cultural difference is the primary difficulty for Chinese traditional women to deal with when they arrived to the United States; at the same time, their pressures are all come from this culture complexity. In the past, Chinese women were taught to be silent and followed their husband no matter what; as a result, their thoughts were very conservative and traditional, which caused the cultural conflict when their husband invited them to America. In Sui Sin Far's Americanizing of Pau Tsu, the spousal relationship of the characters is jeopardized by the husband's desire for her woman to become Americanized and his inter-racial love to a white lady. This story is similar to the “The Wisdom of the New,” which comes from the wife’s unwillingness and inability to assimilate into American culture.
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He only care about what he wants and how he feels, and never respect his wife. He even trying to control Pau Tsu’s life by helping her to make decision on what to wear. In other words, he is trying to transform Pau Tsu to something that he thinks is perfect and fit him, such as to be Americanized like Adah. Additionally, in the story, Adah is playing an important role because she is the one who has controlled Fo Lin’s thought without herself noticed. Since Adah is a white woman, Fo Lin would listen to everything she said and agree with her with no query. Besides, because of Adah, Fo Lin eventually noticed what mistakes he had been made. At the same time, even a white man clearly understands the cultural complicity, Fo Lin who being a tradition Chinese man still does not noticed, which clearly indicates the he is only paying attention on what he thinks is correct but never think other people’s
He only care about what he wants and how he feels, and never respect his wife. He even trying to control Pau Tsu’s life by helping her to make decision on what to wear. In other words, he is trying to transform Pau Tsu to something that he thinks is perfect and fit him, such as to be Americanized like Adah. Additionally, in the story, Adah is playing an important role because she is the one who has controlled Fo Lin’s thought without herself noticed. Since Adah is a white woman, Fo Lin would listen to everything she said and agree with her with no query. Besides, because of Adah, Fo Lin eventually noticed what mistakes he had been made. At the same time, even a white man clearly understands the cultural complicity, Fo Lin who being a tradition Chinese man still does not noticed, which clearly indicates the he is only paying attention on what he thinks is correct but never think other people’s