Rebellion Vs. Conformity In 'The Bridegroom'

Some people in the world may believe that rebellion is way better than conformity. On the other hand, some believe that conformity is way better than rebellion. My primary sources, “The Bridegroom” and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , show that conformity causes or creates problems within the world while rebellion causes or creates less problems and more solutions to those problems. They seem to prove that rebellion is better than conformity. Not everyone has what it takes to stand up for something they believe in. The author of “The Bridegroom,” Ha Jin, has done everything in life by himself, and he has done it with no help from anyone. Ha Jin has made himself a level of acceptance and acclaim that normally takes immigrants three
There are twelve stories within “The Bridegroom” (Tobias). These stories take place in Muji City (Tobias). This collection of stories “provides a fascinating look at Eastern culture” (Holler). Ha Jin focuses on average citizens who have simple needs and who do not enjoy positions of real authority. All the citizens want is to provide for their families, but the government, the police, as well as other people get in their way a lot. In “The Bridegroom” the husband is sentenced to a mental institution to “cure” his homosexuality. The Husband has to endure “electric baths” on a daily basis (Tobias). There is much love for the daughter, Beina, by her father, who is not actually her
He feels as though she is never going to find a boyfriend and get married. It seems as though the daughter is on the track to dying as an old maid (Jin 401). At a later time in the story, the daughter comes home with a new boyfriend that is one of the most attractive men in the factory. Huang Baowen was Beina’s new boyfriend, and Beina’s father was not impressed with Huang. Even though Huang brought the father gifts of “Capons, Ginseng, Cigarettes, Five Grains’ snap, and Oolong tea,” the father was not impressed at all with Baowen (Jin 401). It could be said that Baowen had money to spend on expensive gifts, but there was no reason to spend so much money on the father just to get approval to marry Beina. The people that worked in the factory could not believe that Huang and Beina got married (Jin 401). “Huang was not exactly the manliest of men. Huang Baowen was extremely feminine in the things that he did” (Jin