... such scenario, her aunt is a timid woman ordered into submission by a rapist. In another, her aunt harbors a slowly blossoming passion, attempting to attract a man's attention by carefully tending to her appearance. Kingston's fantasies must have direct bearing on her own life: she rejects, for example, the idea the idea that her aunt was a wild woman of loose morals. Instead, her aunt's ... greatest crime "one with which Kingston identifies "was acting on her private interests, stepping out of the role Chinese society and traditions had proscribed for her. Such traditions, Kingston says...

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