This is explained in Nadya Aisenberg's Ordinary Heroines, "...the hero has nonetheless been our culture's central symbol. Hence within our male-dominated culture we experience great trouble conceiving a heroine"(10). ... Lily could also be considered as a character who is consumed and she is absorbed by her culture's definition of what it means to be "appropriate wifely company"(Choy,14). ... In the first opening paragraphs of the book it states, "She was barely twenty when she came to Canada. ... She delt with a life time of discrimination because of the simple fact th...

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The debris described is a mixture of both nature and culture, though there is a symbolic order in which the debris is described. ... In the story "The Found Boat" Munro uses events of everyday life in a small Canadian town to symbolize the struggle five adolescents go through trying to define their gender roles. ...

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