Marilyn scoffs at the notions of American womanhood. She wants to attend med school and she wants to become a doctor. Although Marilyn’s mother expects her to become the ideal housewife, Marilyn has other plans for herself. Marilyn Lee – Marilyn Lee is a white woman who falls in love with James after sitting through his class on the American cowboy. Overall, James believes that conformity is the key to success-it is not a good thing to be different. James does not want his children to experience the same pain he did when he was a young adult, so he urges them to make friends with the popular kids, attend social functions and participate in cool activities, like sports. As his children grow up, he tries to teach them the importance of fitting in and the significance of conformity or complying with the social customs of the time. Since others have constantly treated him unfairly and cruelly, James has learned to endure much internal pain, embarrassment and humiliation. James Lee – James Lee is a Chinese professor who has experienced great bouts of discrimination throughout his lifetime.
If you have ever experienced the unfavorable effects of loneliness, frustration or discrimination, then perhaps these characters will resonate with you in some way.
Ng has garnered much praise and approbation for her debut novel because of her ability to develop such excitingly authentic characters. Instead of detailing the various events that take place within this novel, I chose to provide a brief summary of each character since Ng specifically focuses on the relationships between each family member throughout her text. Throughout her text, Ng carefully reveals the secrets, desires and insecurities of the Lee family, and she achieves this by molding and constructing unique relationships between five distinctly different characters.Īlthough Ng relies on a relatively simple storyline, her novel has exploded onto the public scene because of her ability to craft real and relevant characters who experience real and relevant emotions.
Lydia Lee is dead and her family does not know how to cope. Ng immediately slams her readers with the overarching conflict of the text. Within her debut novel, “Everything I Never Told You,” Celeste Ng tells the story of a Chinese-American family living in small-town Ohio during the 1970s.
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