No Name Woman

Maxime Hong Kinston was a female writer as a second generation of Chinese immigrants. In No Name Woman, Kinston points out the cultural and historical tragedy rink to aunt’s suicide. After I read the No Name Woman, I totally understood what happened to the family. Her aunt betrays her husband which means disobedience role of the community as a married woman. Chinese were influenced by Confucianism which was based on male dominant society, and it was built on Hierarchal society. The Villagers believe that her fault would be effect on other woman, so they had right to punish her instead of god. Due to the failure of government system, the role of community widely concerned about personal relationship.  Her aunt’s pregnant was dangerous to maintain their ethical roles, so people violently attacked the house that “Then they threw eggs and began slaughtering out stock” (Kingston). I imagined how she terrified or ignored by family and neighbors. She was isolated because her pregnant was the criticism of Chinese’s ancient culture. The narrator was changed by the tone that writer’s mother moved back to the past, and writer described her present to reflect her aunt’s image in her mind. I enjoyed reading cross cultural literature to understand different culture.