· Gish Jen. Who’s Irish? Posted on September 9, by FaustoB. Who is Irish? This question got me thinking before and after I read the story. I am trying to figure out what is the author purpose of asking that question, and to whom is she directing it. The story “Who’s Irish” by Gish Jen is a story of an elderly Chinese woman, living in America, trying to help her daughter and her family raise her granddaughter Sophie. She struggles while watching Sophie grow up in this culture and wishes to discipline her the way a proper Chinese girl is raised. Who's Irish? By GISH JEN. Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf. In China, people say mixed children are supposed to be smart, and definitely my granddaughter Sophie is smart. But Sophie is wild, Sophie is not like my daughter Natalie, or like me. I am work hard my whole life, and fierce bltadwin.ru: Administrator.
Gish Jen's "Who's Irish" tells the story of a sixty-eight-year-old Chinese immigrant and her struggle to accept other cultures different from her own. The protagonist has been living in the United States for a while but she is still critical of other cultures and ethnicities, such as her son-in-law's Irish family and the American. (Story 1, Page 5) In this collection's first story, Jen introduces the conflicts between generational expectations in immigrant families. The narrator, a grandmother, essentially occupies the role of babysitter for her granddaughter—a role that runs counter to her own cultural expectations. Gish Jen's "Who's Irish? " tells the story of a Chinese immigrant grandmother who has a hard time adjusting to life in America. The story primarily focuses on the difficulties in communication between family relationships. The different lifestyle her daughter's family lives is quite different from the household she raised in China.
John is her son in law, he is lazy and a male chauvinist. Even dough the grandmother shows a strong character she suffers to see her daughter work so hard while her husband is at home or at the gym. Natalie supports her husband behavior I guess because she loves him very much and love blind her of reality or maybe she is afraid of a divorce. The first story, “Who’s Irish?” is told from the perspective of a Chinese grandmother who tells a story about her half-Irish granddaughter. In another story called “Duncan in China,” we follow a Chinese-American who travels to China to reconnect with his heritage I only recently learned of Gish Jen and her work and am absolutely mesmerized. The story “Who’s Irish” by Gish Jen is a story of an elderly Chinese woman, living in America, trying to help her daughter and her family raise her granddaughter Sophie. She struggles while watching Sophie grow up in this culture and wishes to discipline her the way a proper Chinese girl is raised.
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