Song knows that the western man wants a weak, oriental girl. This is why she puts on the act that she does. An act that portrays herself as being very frail, needy, and “modest” as she says. Gallimard likes the act that she puts on. However, he does not know that it is an act. He is being the stereotypical westerner, falling straight into the trap that Song wants him to fall into.

As the play progresses, Song keeps playing her cute, frail act tha

Song takes everything one step further by lying to Gallimard by saying that she is pregnant. She knows that this alone will draw Gallimard closer to her. She then leaves with the baby for four years, which also makes Gallimard want her more, so he quotes, “Is it possible that her stubbornness only made me want her more? That drawing back at the moment of my capitulation was the most brilliant strategy she could have chosen? It is possible. But it is also possible that by this point she could have said, could have done…anything, and I would have adored her still (pg. 1705)”. Gallimard is completely in love with and infatuated by Song now. It is the whole taboo thing: you always want what you can’t have more than what you can have. He already loved her before she left, and now his feelings have intensified severely.

David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly is a tragic love story of deception, stereotyping, and identity. It states how easy it is to fall in love with the wrong person, and be deceived for a very long time and not even notice it because of the blindness that love inhibits. It states that the west is very stereotypical of the east and yet that a westerner can be deceived easily because of his stereotypical beliefs. It also states that identity can

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