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Maxine Hong Kingston’s essay, “No Name Woman” is a story of a narrator who is trying to understand her past. She hears the story of her Aunt who was disowned and never spoken of by her family. The narrator produces the writings as an attempt to understand what really happened to her Aunt and how the occurrences of the Chinese culture fit into her own American lifestyle. She struggles with how to perceive her Aunt and the community that ultimately led her to her death. The narrator deals with her Aunt’s subjection and subjectivity throughout the story by looking at the different perspectives in every way she can before forming her own opinion. Though, by her going back and forth with all of the ideas, she starts to feel uncertain of which culture, Chinese or American she belongs in. She begins to feel trapped in between her two cultures. The narrator is confused in what actually happened to her Aunt and why. In a way of dealing with the horrible things tha