Cat People Putting Out Fire Analysis

I believe the song, “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)”, is a great connection from song to text, between “The Joy Luck Club” and the song, because of the way it shows that if you try to solve a problem incorrectly it will cause that problem to get bigger. An example of this is in the scene, “Now everyone was standing up and shouting, and I heard my mother’s voice crying…If you take your daughter, she will become like you… And then with one shout this dark boiling soup spilled forward and fell all over my neck. It was as though everyone’s anger were pouring all over me.” I say this is like the lines from the song which say, “And I’ve been putting out fire With gasoline” which is related to the story in where both sides of the argument are trying to solve a problem, the mother is trying to gain her child back, while her relatives are trying to make her mother leave, and in this cause an almost fatal wound to the child; since they didn’t try solving their problem correctly it got worse and worse until it boiled over and hurt someone dear to both sides, like a fire burning more and more from gasoline.
In the words, “And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.” I see the lyrics, “Well you wouldn’t believe what I’ve been through” reverberating the sentimental value of those words, once you hide a problem for so long it becomes unbelievable to those who have never met you or know your past, so it is as if nothing