The Woman Warrior Lesson Plan

Why does the narrator worry her family will marry her off to the disabled boy? What does this worry say about the narrator’s perception of herself and her family?

The narrator fixates on the worry that her family wants to marry her off to the disabled boy. This stems from the worry that, as a girl, she is not valued as a member of her family, and that her parents are looking for an opportunity to get rid of her (she is also worried they will sell her if they move back to China). This anxiety also sheds light on the narrator’s perception of herself as a misfit, seeing herself as a likely match for the disabled boy since she is messy—rather than demure and well-behaved, as a...