In How to be Good, for example, he combines the obedient wife stereotype with the working woman stereotype in order to create his protagonist. ... In light of this, this critique shall use the Feminist Literary Theory. ... The critique hopes to be faithful to the principle of Feminist Literary Criticism in that it will be "an academic approach to the study of literature which applies feminist thought to the analysis of literary texts and the contexts of their production and reception" (Goodman xi). ... The irony, however, is that she did not use this power to dictate terms within...

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Some stereotypical roles that women will often fulfill in literary works are, what I will be naming, the passive female, the unsympathetic woman, and the new woman. ... One example is that Poh-Poh "liked to whisper blessings in his(Sekky's) ear, always whispering softly, so that the gods could not hear"(Choy, 42). ... Another example of Poh-Poh's "tough love" is shown through her resistance to show Liang how to tie the red ribbons. ... Poh-Poh is a great example of the "unsympathetic woman". ... This role, in terms of a female, is often referred to as the "new woman" and t...

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