The Woman Warrior Character Analysis

The Woman Warrior, is a fictional novel written by author Maxine Hong Kingston relating the truths of the life of an Chinese-American woman. Throughout the novel, the author details various intimate events that occur during the life of a young woman, with the variety not being limited to easily accepted, joyous encounters. Through often intense storytelling, and colorful imagery provided by both narrator and main characters, the author is able to allow readers a sort of understanding only achieved by raw, emotional, and unexpected clarity while detailing her life in the aspect of growth, and realistic lessons that one has learned. The main character holds passionately onto an expression of how brutal conditions fell upon their journey living
In an instance where she approaches an emperor following battle, she encounters specific sayings by the mouth of the emperor to which the reader is left in understanding Kingston’s loathing the feminine degrading, where the emperor declares, “Girls are maggots in the rice”…”It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters” (43). In this situation offense is easily noted to have been taken of Kingston, even more in a personal manner, as imparted by Kingston with these words, “He quoted to me the sayings I hated” (43). Not only did the narrator want to convey her disapproval with the negative view of the female presence though her personal ordeals, but also with the exposing of what what she knew other women may have met with. At the start of the novel, Kingston tells of an aunt of whom succumbed to a disowning by her family because of an pregnancy. The telling of this event not only seeks to reveal the hardship due to the aunt during that period of time, but also to subtlety introduce to readers how Kingston felt about injustice towards women, where she writes, “The other man was not, after all, much different from her husband. The both gave orders: she followed. “If you tell your family, I’ll beat you. I’ll kill you…” (7). Here it is seen what Kingston’s aunt may have possibly faced, but more so, following the observation, Kingston’s objection to that possible act, where she writes, “I want her fear to have lasted just as long as rape lasted so that the fear could have been contained. No drawn-out fear.” (7). In each expression of grief concerning the aspect of viewing, and treating women to a lower standard of perspective, Kingston effectively through the novel a portion dedicated to the awareness of the maltreatment of