Madame Wang, the matchmaker, is a foot-bound woman and yet she does business with men. How is she different from the other women in the story? Do you think that she is considered a woman of status of is she merely a necessary evil?
I believe that in this story the matchmaker Madame Wang in both a woman of status as well as a necessary evil. On one hand, she is a very powerful woman, in charge of making all of the matches between men and women of different villages. With out her the village in which Lily and her family live, and all the other villages that Madame Wang works with would be left in disarray, with no one to carry on the tradition. On the other hand, she is just a woman, in the eyes of the men in the village, and in fact, the country, believe that she is a worthless branch of her family tree unless she can marry into a rich family. This is a repeated theme throughout the book. Through the eyes of the people who lived in ancient China, woman were good for nothing.
My Dream
The Section That Looks Official and Takes Up Space
- S. Naes
- There's More Than Corn In, Indiana, United States
- Half the time nobody really bothers to read this section of the page, but I figured that since I'm bored I would fill up part of my page with the parts of my life that are odd. Probably the weirdest thing about me is my abnormal neatness when it comes to grammar and handwriting. I can't stand not capitilizing all of my letters at the beginning of a sentence, and ending everything with the proper punctuation. I can't write fast, so my writing territories fail epicly. Sorry Miss Holmes. When I write fast I get mad because my handwriting isn't neat. I am the master of all procrastination, although I am trying to work on it. I am fluent in sarcasm, as is my fellow sensei of the art, Flynnstone. I would fill this space with normal things, but those are uninteresting, so that's where I will end this section.
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