F. Gallimard as the Cruel Occidental Man Nevertheless, this is not enough to be an Occidental male dominator for Gallimard. He decides to have another lover; another woman that can evince his butterfly is a silent beauty. Therefore, he develops another relationship with Renee, a woman who is “too uninhibited, too willing, so as to seem almost too . . . masculine” (Hwang 54). Renee can be reckoned as the typical Occidental woman that is bold enough to display her nude body and straightforwardly to discuss the size as well as names of a penis with Gallimard. Gallimard is probably “exciting to be with someone who [i]sn’t afraid to be seen completely naked”; nevertheless, Gallimard’s primary purpose is to serve his own personal desire of the cruel Occidental man and the obedient Oriental butterfly (Hwang 54). Gallimard keeps his relationship with Renee for several months, as he at the same time believes his butterfly knows the affair he is concealing (Hwang 56). Nevertheless, he deeply trusts that his Oriental butterfly would not act like the Occidental woman, she would not “confront”, “threaten” or even “pout” to Gallimard since his Oriental butterfly is supposed to be “little”, “humble” and “silent” (Hwang 56). In Gallimard’s imagination, he can picture his Oriental butterfly shedding tears “into those wildly soft sleeves, once full of possessions, now empty to collect her tears” and this scenery is absolutely making Gallimard delight (56). Therefore, he ought to