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The Power of Love in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Selvi Bunce
Abstract
This essay will examine love as a theme of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and how its presence and absence affected women of 19th-century China.
Keywords: Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, laotang, Snow Flower, nu shu, deep-heart love.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See, follows the life of two women in 19th-century rural China from the retrospective viewpoint of Lily, a widow with nothing left to lose. Lily grows up as a peasant girl with one unique feature - feet with potential. Due to her beauty and small feet that will ensure her with a more prosperous marriage, Lily is given a laotang, a “forever friend”, from a wealthy family with whom she will write nu shu- secret women’s writing- for the rest of their lives. Her laotang is called Snow Flower, and the two form a rare relationship for 19th century China - one that was meant to last a lifetime.
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