“Unmasking Expectations: How Hyeseung Song’s ‘Docile’ Shatters the Stereotypes of the Perfect Asian Girl”
“This woman had taught me that love was an obedience, and the guilt inside me pricked hard that I had wanted to run away and leave her behind…. I bowed under the immense darkness of my mother’s psyche. ‘Hyeseung-a, don’t be like me when you grow up,’ she said. What would be so bad about being like her one day? What would be so bad about being kind and generous in the face of lack and clever in everything? But I knew what she meant. Where was the key to her prison? I wanted to scream at the universe.”
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