“No Name Woman” by Maxine Hong Kingston begins with a story about Kingston’s aunt and the woman’s place in her Chinese culture.From this story, Kingston is expected to learn about loyalty and obedience. Relating the story to Kingston, her mother says “you must not tell anyone” because her aunt is a disgrace to the family and it is as if “she [has] never been born” (1568).This line signifies that because of the aunt’s actions, she is obliterated from their family history except from this one story that is unsurprisingly told by a woman …show more content…
Arranged marriages were not enjoyed by either spouse, but the line, “to make sure they responsibly came home” hints that men had a way out or could escape the responsibility of marriage. While women were punished for practicing infidelity at home, men were privileged with opportunities of traveling the world and being unfaithful in other countries, as well as taking second wives at home (Fulton, 36). The practice of foot binding was also a torture that Chinese women endured, and Kingston’s mother said that “[Kingston] was lucky that [she] didn’t have to have [her] feet bound when [she] was seven (1572). These unjust rulesand traditions prove just how subjugated these women were in this male domineering