In “Fish Cheeks”, Amy Tan describes her Christmas eve dinner as catastrophic, being that she was fourteen, and the humiliation that she felt when her crush Robert, who was the minister’s son and his family had been invited to have a traditional Chinese meal with her family. But when she found out that he was invited to dinner, she felt so many emotions like fear, humiliation and discouragement and thoughts of what he might think of her and her families Chinese Christmas celebrations. “What terrible disappointment would he feel upon seeing not a roasted turkey and sweet potatoes, but Chinese food” (Tan 1)? When Robert and his family came over, he grunted hello, and she pretended that he didn’t exist as they were there. Naturally her worst
