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Essay On Moon Orchid's Lowardliness In The Woman Warrior

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In The Woman Warrior, Kingston uses Moon Orchid's cowardliness as a symbol for oppression in order to prove the effects of mistreatment, on women's health, confidence, and deterioration of family relationships. Moon Orchid has traveled across the ocean to come to America for her husband, yet when she finds out he is remarried she cannot bear to face him. She lacks confidence because she has never been given control of her life, which is due to the discrimination against women. People assumed she could not take care of herself because she was a woman. She has always had someone tending to her needs and helping her complete tasks, which has lessened her ability to obtain control over her life. Moon Orchid's scarcity of control is leading her
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