Depending on the era and society one is within has a huge influence and determines lifestyle outcome. In the "No Name Woman" short story the ideal that the narrator is under deep internal pressure merges, scapegoating, and the entwined contradicting Chinese community. Deeply rooted to have solitary life. In the Chinese culture majority members of the community are related by bloodline or marriage. Chinese families take honor and pride in their lifestyle and find strength in family ties. The traditional Chinese culture beliefs are for the wife to join her husband’s family to form unity. The common goal was the survival of the family name and honor. The narrator is sharing a tale told to her defining a historic Chinese cultural (Clugston, 2014).
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Displaying their dishonor and shame of the situation. The Villagers vandalized the family residence and took their personal belongings. In wasn’t long from the pressure of the community her family and friends joined the accusations. Therefore, a few days after giving birth the aunt commits suicide. The aunt’s suicide is the community’s phantom (Gee, 1998). Thus this essay will explore the short story “No Name Woman” and its specific conflicts and literary techniques. The conflict similarities and differences will be identified. The “No Name Woman” short story illustrates the struggle of three literary techniques. Expressing conflict of the need for society to control and the need for the individual to have self-expression (Janks, 2001). Moreover, even though personal conflict struggles may not make every person a candidate for suicide. However, when a person endures critical self-judgment a conflict struggle to live or die does occur. The conflict similarities and differences in the “No Name Woman” identify the choice of life on an individual …show more content…
Who else has been unremembered? Who else is left out of stories? And how do we restore their existence and reputation? Since we are never granted a name for the aunt – indeed, Kingston does not distinguish her aunt's name – we might wonder who else might be observe a "No Name Woman" both in the book's world and in our own. In giving the No Name Woman another story to be told, Kingston uses her authorial sway to propose another interpretation. The influence to make up one's mind is largely in the storyteller, in the explanation of an incident and not the event
Displaying their dishonor and shame of the situation. The Villagers vandalized the family residence and took their personal belongings. In wasn’t long from the pressure of the community her family and friends joined the accusations. Therefore, a few days after giving birth the aunt commits suicide. The aunt’s suicide is the community’s phantom (Gee, 1998). Thus this essay will explore the short story “No Name Woman” and its specific conflicts and literary techniques. The conflict similarities and differences will be identified. The “No Name Woman” short story illustrates the struggle of three literary techniques. Expressing conflict of the need for society to control and the need for the individual to have self-expression (Janks, 2001). Moreover, even though personal conflict struggles may not make every person a candidate for suicide. However, when a person endures critical self-judgment a conflict struggle to live or die does occur. The conflict similarities and differences in the “No Name Woman” identify the choice of life on an individual …show more content…
Who else has been unremembered? Who else is left out of stories? And how do we restore their existence and reputation? Since we are never granted a name for the aunt – indeed, Kingston does not distinguish her aunt's name – we might wonder who else might be observe a "No Name Woman" both in the book's world and in our own. In giving the No Name Woman another story to be told, Kingston uses her authorial sway to propose another interpretation. The influence to make up one's mind is largely in the storyteller, in the explanation of an incident and not the event