a character analysis of Wallace Wong in Birthday by David Wong Louie
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1. Write a character analysis of Wallace Wong in Birthday by David Wong Louie in which you state three words or phrases to describe him (one word or phrase to be developed in each of the three body paragraphs). In all three of your body paragraphs, you must support your points with examples from Birthday. Additionally, in one of your body paragraphs, you must include one of the quotes from one of the literary critics listed below, explain what the quote means, and respond to that quote by explaining to what extent you agree or disagree and why
What the scholars have said:
-In his review of stories by David Wong Louie, Richard Eder has written: The first-generation Chinese immigrants in several of these stories are past-clingers, an embarrassment to their up-to-date Chinese-American children. Yet . . . Their parents values, however, they struggle with them, prevail in some fashion (3).
-The literary critic, Su-Ching Huang, notes that David Wong Louies characters display insecurity and sense of displacement (656).
-The literary critic, Hanna Ristola says that at the end of Birthday, Wallace Wong is like a servant as he finishes baking a birthday cake for the boy (28).
-In an essay published on the website Course Hero, Tom Lee argues that at the end of Birthday, Wallace Wong changes from a person who is blinded by . . . his fantasies to a man who can accept reality and identify himself by his own standards in it (Lee).
