Pangs of Love
According Louie’s short story Pangs of Love, Asian American figures living in the American mainstream society have not overcome their stereotypes that portrait them as effeminate and castrated. Even though they have lived in America for almost their lives like the rest of the white people, the men in this story have not equated with the other races, especially the white society. The narrator in the story names Pang is a man of thirty-five years old who “for the past nine months [has] lived with [his] mother in a federally subsidized high rise in the lower reached of Chinatown (Louie 57)” fits this image. He tends to pull himself toward dating white women only. His masculinity is redefined by those white women. His brother, Bagel, is another male in the story whose masculinity has been stripped down too. In comparison to Louie’s other Pangs of Love short story Birthday, it also portrait the same stereotypes that Asian American man faces. According to Sarkar, Wallace Wong in “Birthday” reveals to the public that he also fits the image of emasculated Asian male. These images have continued to haunt us according Sarkar who says that throughout history, the image of railroad worker and valorization show that the idea of em
Wallace is ripped off his masculinity because he is totally unaware of Sylvie’s intentions. Here, a white woman has for a person who has a racist notion that a Chinese man needs Through Amanda’s abandonment, Pang however does not escape castration by forming another relationship with a white man, but instead it makes him feel more emasculated.
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Approximate Word count = 1245
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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