Pain In Snow Flower And The Secret Fan

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Introduction: The American Society of Plastic Surgery let out its 18th annual article on statistics revealing that in 2014, Americans have been spending over 12 billion dollars in demand for cosmetic surgery. According to the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS), people undergo these painful treatments to remain accepted by media and society; just like celebrities are or on television. To be accepted and loved by society as a “beautiful individual,” presents a spark of happiness into their lives, even if they have to go through all that pain before hand. In Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See, the main characters, Lily and Snow Flower, are willing to experience pain mentally and physically, to be accepted by the people around them and to achieve the feeling of happiness in their lives; similarly to how people are today. At an early age, Lily and Snow Flower were forced to undertake the excruciating pain of getting their feet bound to later hopefully get a wealthy and rich husband to be joyous in the future. While both laotongs being separated from each other, they both write about their painful yet rewarding lives as being women. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan portrays the message that people must go through hardships and experience pain in order to be happy which is similar to what Snow Flower and Lily …show more content…

Lily and Snow Flower undergo the painful act of having their feet bound to eventually getting a wealthy and loving husband when they are older.
Lily has to leave her natal family whom she grew up with to live with her husband who will later make the pain feel worth it.
Quote: “All I knew was that footbinding would make me more marriageable and therefore bring me closer to the greatest love and greatest joy in a woman’s life- a son” (See 25,

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