Despite the seemingly impossible task of living up to traditional standards of masculinity "ideals such as honor, duty, and heterosexuality' "Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Sui Sin Far's "The Story of One White Woman who Married a Chinese,"" suggest that failed masculinity often results from being corrupted by society. ... Thus, because Minnie not only looks past Liu's ethnicity and accepts him as a person, but holds Liu in a similar esteem to her father, Minnie's statement further elevates Liu's masculinity. ...

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