Thomas Porter
Thoughts of the story: Live In Cook
When I think of a live in cook I think of a woman. this story was good because it tricked us readers within the first two pages of the story. Once we find out he was a gay man that had many live in cook jobs and was from an Asian descent it opens our mind up to a strange story.
In the second paragraph I thought the live in cook was a black female due to how the narrator described the way the first type of people treated the narrator, by giving catlike glimpses and slamming the door in the narrator face. Ultimately not hiring the narrator due to her appearances.
My second stereotype was that the narrator was a transvestite due to the way he was treated by the first and second types of people. And of course the comment he made as far as saying his boss, “wouldn’t have to worry about their little girls but their boys.....”.
I did not have any question due to most of my questions were answered as I continued to read the book. But overall it was a good book because it had me thinking and wondering.
That's really interesting how initially you thought the narrator was a woman and then you began to wonder whether she was a black woman. This brings up another set of stereotypes regarding black women domestic workers and cooking. But i can't say i see the connection between how Binh was treated and deducing from that that he was possibly a transvestite. Also, do you think the author tricks us in this excerpt from her book or do we fall victim to our own gendered perceptions?
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