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Mothers And Daughters Relationships

Beauty, is it in the eye of the beholder? For many people beauty is an image that society has constructed and manipulated. For a long time society has influenced our views of beauty. Television and magazines have created the “Perfect” image of a woman. This perfect woman image consists of a young woman that has an attractive face, is intelligent, and most importantly is slender. Since society has treated women according to their beauty qualifications, women have become obsessed with the perfection of beauty.
The exclusive relationship between a mother and a daughter is full of complex values and feelings. In the two short stories, “Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown” by Anne Jew and ...

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relationship, where the elders must be respected at all times. However, the daughters in the stories have a similarity.
Culture plays an important aspect in revealing the relationships within a family. In Maara Haas’s short story, the culture of the daughter and mother is Ukrainian. This is shown throughout the story by cultural beliefs, customs, and comments made by the mother “Me Ukrainian off da boat” (Haas, 201). In the other story by Anne Jew, the mother and daughter are of a strict Chinese heritage. The story begins with an introduction to some of the beliefs in the Chinese the culture to set the stage for the strict relationship between mother and daughter.
The hierarchical design of relationships between mother and daughter is very different; in the two stories the relationships between mother and daughter are inversely correlated to each other. While it is apparent, that the mother is at the top of the hierarchy in the Chinese family, the opposite is perceived in the ...

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Added: 12/10/2006 02:48:43 PM
Category: Social Issues
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 700
Pages: 3

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