Conflict In The Woman Warrior

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The last two chapter of “The woman warrior” are interesting and conflicting each other at the same time. They are conflicting each other because Kingston wasn’t involved in the main events where the stories all about her mother Brave Orchid and her aunt Moon Orchid but the last chapter most of it was about Kingston’s own stories and thoughts. It is interesting because Kingston in “At the Western Palace” where she wasn’t part of the major clashes of this chapter, but at the same time she was part of it because it been brought to us by her so she stepped to a second person or a third person to present the stories. She was capable of shifting the reader’s attention from Chinese’s culture that been represented as an example of her mother and her aunt to American’s culture where also been influenced by a Chinese’s culture as herself.
On one hand, Kingston displayed the American culture to those who have been never exploded
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Her internal conflict of how a husband like her sister’s husband could get a new wife and forget the days that he spent with his old wife. Brave Orchid tried to convince her sister to be dramatic when she meets her husband; for example, she told her sister to go to his house, knock the door, and if she answered the door tell her that you want to speak to your husband and walk by her as she were a servant. Her thoughts were very imaginative and tragic. Her made up stories such as the one mentioned right now was a hint of revealed her internal thoughts; she didn’t want her husband to treat her such as her sister’s husband treated her sister, and also she was sad for her sister and she wanted a better life for her. Brave scariness even extended to tell her husband and ask him directly if he is going to get a new wife, but her husband clamed her down by telling her no one will marry an old

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