Character Analysis Joanna “Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown” is a story written by Anne Jew in 1997 which is talked about the changes and conflicts of a teenage girl named Lin who lived in Canada. The surrounding social environment has a big influence on her characteristics. In the story, Lin fall in love with a white boy, Todd. The love make Lin become a vainglorious person. Todd is a very good looking boy and always can attract other girls eyes. He is really popular in school. When Lin stays with Todd and chats with him, she tries to integrate Todd’s world and pretends she is interested in Todd’s everyday topics about his life. “I try hard to stay interested in what he says and ask him questions” (Jew 1) indicates that Lin doesn’t express her really feeling and shows that Lin is not confident in this love. Meanwhile, when Lin sees soup dribbles our of her grandmother’s mouth makes her feel disgusted when she is feeding her grandmother. She is ungrateful at that time but she wants to make herself a good person because “Todd would die if he knew I had to do this” (Jew 3). …show more content…
Lin’s parents are Chinese origin but they moves to Canada to settle down as foreigners. They can’t speak English and are not integrated in the Canadian society, but keep on living as a traditional Chinese people. As a Chinese, Lin’s parents want her to behave like a Chinese and stay away from white people. However, as a girl who grows up in Canada and experiences the same things as every Canadian teenagers do, it’s really hard for Lin to follow her parents instructions. “Today Todd walks me to the beginning of my block as usual and then crosses the street to go on. “My mother would start to ask questions if she saw us together” (Jew 3) demonstrates that although Lin knows her parents will be unhappy and annoyed with her behavior, she actually doesn’t care at