... saying that Asia is very submissive, weak, and a place that wants to be dominated. Hwang shows that the East could be very similar to the West, a "masculine, big gun, big industry and big money place" (pg. 1712). Hwang hopes to break the old butterfly myth of Asian submissiveness to western dominance. This is why ... dresses up as a woman and acts like the typical needy oriental woman, to lure Rene Gallimard into her trap. This ties into another theme of the story, sexual identity. For twenty years Gallimard was deeply in love with Song, whom he only thought to be a submissive, innocent...

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... . Sex is way of expressing that love, just as it is for heterosexuals. Being gay is much more profound than simply a sexual relationship; being gay is part of that person's identity. It's like being black in a society of whites, or a blonde European in a nation of black-haired Asians. This is something that few heterosexuals can understand unless they are a minority themselves ... other through marriage. Some of the major concerns are that people are afraid to face the reality of a constantly changing society, making love to another man betrays everything that is masculine, and it offend...

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