tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763834534957201894.post1968555975566590170..comments2023-10-09T09:24:57.934-07:00Comments on Asian-American Women's Literature: Leave a MessageUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8763834534957201894.post-44744379538476319882007-02-13T15:43:00.000-08:002007-02-13T15:43:00.000-08:00It is interesting that Kim uses the answering mach...It is interesting that Kim uses the answering machine in Suzy’s apartment so that the reader may catch a glimpse at the narrator’s lifestyle. I feel as though this “single” life is a comment on how she chooses to live. Suzy lives alone in spite of her parents and the Korean community altogether; it is her angst. She does not feel as though she should pursue the married life that so many other Koreans strive for, so messes around with men as a mistress. I find it compelling that the author would choose to live the way she does almost because of her stubbornness and constant motivation of an unconscious feminism. She is desired in her drab apartment, male callers calling in code to have her. She rarely ever seems to call on these men (although there are obvious examples that she desires them as well: her invitation to Professor Tomiko’s house). The reader can see her desire for more of this “power” in the scene in which she is eating downstairs from the attorney’s office. The author chooses to highlight a cultural norm that is broken when she eats soup by herself. Learning and choosing to speak English is another example of the power given to the interpreter. Suzy has apparently been impacted by the way that her parents and sister have treated her in the past, and for many years considers herself better off segregated from the Korean and American communities.Qhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07240844348063430809noreply@blogger.com