Nevertheless, Jane strikes the odds and goes 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 that she begins to embrace her own nature. .
Kingston's peculiar writing style requires the reader to struggle along with the protagonist to make sense of the story. While the protagonist's struggle is passed on to the reader, so is the struggle faced by Kingston herself. Although Kingston was born in California and is therefore an American, her writing techniques are different from what is considered normal in the western world. In The Woman Warrior, Kingston uses many techniques typical of Chinese writing, suggesting some of the influences on her of her Chinese roots.
The use of a narrator in the novel shows an odd mixture of American and Chinese styles. Kingston's habit of writing from different perspectives and jumping back and forth between viewpoints may confuse its responders. There is a distinct difference of "self" between the two cultures. In the Chinese culture, to use the word "I" in writing would give people the impression of being disrespectful. Americans, on the other hand, are encouraged to write from their own unique perspectives, and they are accustomed to reading from an individual perspective. Knowledge of the difference between American and Chinese views of the self does much to clarify Hong Kingston's habit of jumping back and forth between the point of view of such characters as the No Name Woman, Brave Orchid, Moon Orchid, Fa Mu Lan, and the protagonist herself. "I tell what I really think" Kingston does use the term "I" in parts of her novel, probably in an attempt to keep the story grounded and to incorporate her American style into the story.