The title is important in telling us about the power and status of women in Chinese and Chinese- American society because it seems as if they’re not important in this excerpt. The fact that the grandmother has no name tells us about her status and power in Chinese society that all women are considered unvalued and worthless. In the grandmother’s life, she didn’t seem important by mistakes she made. This story tells us about the power relationships between men and women as if men have the say in everything they want in their women. For instance, what’s right and wrong, like the women have no voice or no control in taking action! The presence and roles of mothers and fathers/ grandmothers and grandfathers in the lives of children and adults are the adults  are teaching their beliefs on the right and wrong doings. The children must obey their adults.

The narrator’s fantasies tell us the status and power of young contemporary Chinese women are useless and taken over. The narrator’s own status and power within the Chinese American context is the experience towards Chinese American’s from year’s past and probably from his parents and his grandparents. Meaning, how the narrator’s experience being Chinese American is still present or on her mind. In both societies I believe men and older generations define the role in women. The story generally says women and girls in both cultures are valued by each society as slaves to me because these men just take over women.

Extension: I relate to the themes and issues in the story because I have seen a movie and a documentary of Chinese men dominating their women as in having all the control over them. The world of the narrator’s isn’t that much different from my world. Themes in the story are universal because people today have the same beliefs as their parents and grandparents.

From psychology we can learn how people differently think and how it affects them. How they’re emotions symbolize them. It’s psychological appeal to viewers are how their mind can control actions and beliefs. The characters in this T.V. show that there past memories can take over how they think and what they want to do for their present and future. I think the psychological issues this show explores is to find each character’s identity as they move on while their High School senior year comes to an end.

Two characters in the show, Peyton and Brooke are great examples who give us an example of the unconscious because they both have a past that traumatizes them in their present and both believe they’re future won’t be at their best because of that past. They pretty much sell there selves short. I think the author constructed the mains texts to be a representation of the unconscious to show that everyone goes through this phase on a daily basis. Desires are represented in a text by the characters wanting love and what they want their present and future to look like, perfect. The desires give these characters a sense of hope dream of whatever they want to be and do whether it’s a fashion designer, NBA player, being in love, to be rich and powerful, to be a parent, to die, etc. In just in general, live life to the fullest.

There are conflicts and dynamics that arise of Oedipal/ Electra complex in a character because some character’s parents abandoned them, had an affair, died in an accident and cancer, etc. Some characters realize they don’t get the attention they’ve wanted. Lastly, dreams are an aspect of the text. They’re used by their reason of struggle and what their conscious depicts. It cures/ improves past and recent conflicts. The unconscious reveals many emotions, hopes, wishes inside and out. They’re used to show how people think and act by what they’re mind, heart, and feelings tell them.