As most of you have noted, the overall problem seems to be determining what it means to be a Chinese-American woman in an American culture. It also asks what it means to be a woman or human being in American culture. There are several conflicts to note. There is the individual vs the communal in China as compared to the same situation in America. There is the individual vs the family and there is the Chinese vs the American

heritage of the narrator. Which is she to be? Chinese? American? When is it appropriate to be one or the other? Who is she? The No-Name Woman seems as much to be the narrator as the narrator's aunt. You should notice that Kingston does not give the narrator a name anymore than she does the aunt. The narrator is expected to participate in the punishment of the dead aunt, and yet, as an American she questions that expectation. But she is a rebel only in herself (if at all)....she is unable to actually overcome the power of her Chinese cultural......

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