The face you must show the world insist that everything it it is going to be just fine, that everything is under control that there’s nothing to be concerned about (a contemporary version of Alfred E. Neuman of MAD magazine’s “What, me worry?”). (609).
By creating the idea that “real men” can not show emotion he removes Gallimard from any possibility of being considered masculine using American standards. In the end of M.Butterfly Gallimard commits suicide after a speech about his feelings for Song Liling:
“My mistakes were simple and absolute—the man I loved was a cad, a bounder. He deserved nothing but a kick in the behind, and instead I gave him… all my love. Yes—love. Why not admit it all? That was my undoing, wasn’t it? Love warped my judgment, blinded my eyes, rearranged the very lines on my face… unit I could look in the mirror and see nothing but… a woman.” (Hwang 867).
This short passage describes enough emotion to discredit the idea of Gallimard’s