... to school to become an educated young woman. She then performs the extraordinary of: she marries into society. Many low-class Victorian women would strive for anything to marry a wealthy man. However, Jane is marrying for love. "Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel" It is when she realizes happiness is not a sin ... separate Chinese history from all the myths and stereotypes which inevitably surround it. Kingston's larger point here is to show the difficulties of finding a "middle ground" between a Chinese and an American identity. "Those of us i...

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