Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress Analysis

In Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie illustrates that the little seamstress learns the most from the books of the western world because they teach her the power of her beauty, and ultimately uses her power to her advantage. Ma and Lou are going to get Lou’s pants lengthened,they meet the little seamstress and she gets to work. Both boys are attracted to her so they start to talk to her, they find out she likes to learn. While explaining her passion she says that “you neen’t think I’m a fool, because I enjoy talking to people who can read and write” (25). In this passage the little seamstress believes that she cannot do many things because she is an uneducated girl from the village, but she still wants the knowledge a girl