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narrator angry that Some people are able to afford a toy like that, when her family can barely take care of her. We see this When she notices a toy clown that does somersaults and pull-ups which cost thirty-five dollars. She tells us that thirty five dollars would pay the rent, and the piano bill, by her cousins bunk beds and Pay for a trip to the country to visits her grand father (112). At the end when the leave the store the narrator’s friend, Sugar, is the only one to get the point of the trip when she says: “Imagine for a minute What kind of society it is in which some people can spend on a toy what it would cost to feed a family of Six or seven.” This upsets the narrator who storms off, needing to think about what she has learned. Now Gish Jen ‘s story “ I the American society” tell the story of an Asian family who having bought A restaurant and making a good living try to fit in to their new environment. The mother wanting to join ...

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