Critical Analysis of No Name Woman

A Critical Analysis of “No Name Woman” Times are different depending on which society one happens to come upon, and no one person has the ability to see everyone’s point of view. In Maxine Hong Kingston’s short story “No Name Woman”, there is the belief that the narrator is faced with pressures from a deeply entwined, scapegoating and contradicting community. In this story while the aunt goes through a major ordeal, the rest …showed first 75 words of 1247 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1247 total…for either of them. No house to shelter them, the shunned aunt and the helpless bastard babe took their pride as mother and child to their deaths in the family well. In that action, they spited all the abandonment shown them. Like the stars, they are alone in the darkness, and with the progressing of the dawn, slowly dissipate into nothing, leaving a tainted well, as revenge for the forgiveness they could never have known.