When I first started reading the story I assumed it would be
about a woman live in cook. I didn't realize I had already made that assumption
until I was surprised when the main character thought "Madame now worried
whether she could trust me with her little girls. I have no interest in your
little girls. Your boys … well, that is their choice.” I had to ask myself would
a woman think something like this. I think a man would, which leads me to
believe the cook is a homosexual man.
Why do you think that a woman cannot think this way? They have desired and fantasies just like men. Do you not agree?
ReplyDeleteYes, the title of this piece, "Live-in Cook", and the fact that the narrator/character works as a cook, play on our common held perception regarding who is/does this kind of work- women. What other indications are there in this piece that Binh is a homosexual?
ReplyDeleteLorraine- your point about desires is important as it raises questions about who do we imagine when we think "sexual deviant"?