Irish by Gish Jen in Term Paper

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For his wife, John is a "depressed" man, who needed constant assurance of his security as husband and father of the family; for the Mother, however, John is simply her vision of the typical male who depended on the women of his life for survival. When the Mother commented, "If John lived in China, he would be very happy," she meant that John is like other males that she had encountered with in patriarchal Chinese society.
John is depended on his wife because he lacked work, but cannot be relied on to accomplish tasks such as maintaining the household and baby-sitting for his daughter Sophie. This picture of a modern-day racial mix in an American family illustrates how, in modern society, people still find an excuse to indirectly and subtly promote patriarchy in spite of woman's evident superiority to men….....

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