Who Is The Grandmother In Jen Who's Irish
Jen’s “Who’s Irish?”
Jen’s who’s Irish is a story of a Chinese family in America narrated by a sixty eight year old Chinese Immigrant Meanie. Speaking in “broken English” the grandmother is keen to narrate the events surrounding her daughter Natalie, her granddaughter, Sophie, and her son-in-law John who is also Irish. She does not agree with the American way of raising kids and wishes she could discipline Sophie the way a proper Chinese girl should be raised. The main focus is on how a woman’s granddaughter is growing up differently than how she raised her daughter, which brings conflict between the grandmother and her daughter, Sophie’s mother.
Meanie the grandmother has a strong personality, even scared the gang members that came to her store while she was in China The Story takes place in the park or the home of the daughter. The granddaughter a 3 year old, does not act like a Chinese girl her grandmother is used to. She takes off her clothes at the park and refuses to put them back on. Because her mother refuses to spank her, her grandmother …show more content…
Meanie who basically always complaining about something, “a paycheck, at least he will wear clothes instead of gym clothes” Who’s Irish story displays the differences in perception and acceptance between an elderly mother and her modern and ambitious daughter. The narrator thinks she can fight Sophie’s wild side with her kind of training. The grandmother who is a typical first generation Chinese woman, always have difficulty understanding their children who have born in America. According to her no kid in China acts the way Sophie does and needs to be checked before it is too late. Once at the park Sophie hide in a deep hole and throws sand at her grandmother, laughs when she tells her to come out and say “I hate you
Jen’s who’s Irish is a story of a Chinese family in America narrated by a sixty eight year old Chinese Immigrant Meanie. Speaking in “broken English” the grandmother is keen to narrate the events surrounding her daughter Natalie, her granddaughter, Sophie, and her son-in-law John who is also Irish. She does not agree with the American way of raising kids and wishes she could discipline Sophie the way a proper Chinese girl should be raised. The main focus is on how a woman’s granddaughter is growing up differently than how she raised her daughter, which brings conflict between the grandmother and her daughter, Sophie’s mother.
Meanie the grandmother has a strong personality, even scared the gang members that came to her store while she was in China The Story takes place in the park or the home of the daughter. The granddaughter a 3 year old, does not act like a Chinese girl her grandmother is used to. She takes off her clothes at the park and refuses to put them back on. Because her mother refuses to spank her, her grandmother …show more content…
Meanie who basically always complaining about something, “a paycheck, at least he will wear clothes instead of gym clothes” Who’s Irish story displays the differences in perception and acceptance between an elderly mother and her modern and ambitious daughter. The narrator thinks she can fight Sophie’s wild side with her kind of training. The grandmother who is a typical first generation Chinese woman, always have difficulty understanding their children who have born in America. According to her no kid in China acts the way Sophie does and needs to be checked before it is too late. Once at the park Sophie hide in a deep hole and throws sand at her grandmother, laughs when she tells her to come out and say “I hate you