Socialism Exposed In Amy Tan's Poem

After reading this poem, I believed that the lines that showed parallelism were “And the daughters were grateful:they never left home. To move freely was a luxury stolen from them at birth.Instead, they gathered patience,learning to walk in shoes the size of teacups, without breaking--the arc of their movements as dormant as the rooted willow as redundant as the farmyard hens.But they traveled far in surviving,learning to stretch the family rice, to quiet the demons,the noisy stomachs.” ,and “But in another wilderness,the possibilities, the loneliness,can strangulate like jungle vines.The meager provisions and sentiments of once belonging--fermented roots, Mah-Jongg tiles and firecrackers--set but a flimsy house hold in a forest of nightless …show more content…
The woman that stayed in China to embrace her heritage had to conform to society there, where her life was redundant and monotonous. Therefore she wasn’t treated as an equal to the men in their culture. She was happy with this life, because it was the only life she knew. Whereas the woman that left China to go to the United States, was given more opportunities that her counterpart in China was not given. She was given additional freedoms, rights, and opportunities that the woman that followed the conventional route didn’t. Song also, shows the reader similarities in the two women and that neither one of them is proceeded to leave their own mark on their chosen path. This is evident in the following line; “You remember your mother who walked for centuries ,footless--and like her, you have left no footprints, but only because there is an ocean in between, the unremitting space of your rebellion.” Song is saying that the one woman that stayed in China conformed to the culture and faded into the background. While the woman that immigrated to the United States, she was given the opportunity created her own path, but both paths led to