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Moon Orchid In Kingston's At Western Palace
Another voiceless character who neglects to detach herself from the Chinese diaspora is Kingston’s aunt, Moon Orchid. In the story "At Western Palace," Moon Orchid struggles to confront and speak with a husband who abandoned her in China. When Moon Orchid reluctantly faces her Americanized husband, her silence denotes how virtually voiceless a Chinese woman is who lives in a traditional patriarchal society. Although Brave Orchid provides a chance for Moon Orchid to question her husband, Moon Orchid asserts her years of frustration “without any words coming out" (Kingston 153). Instead, Moon Orchid retreats behind her sister to shield for her. In the light of her silence, Mood Orchid realizes that she must have become “a ghost from China” in
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