![]() ![]() ![]() Jess's external pressures just take an unusually persistent and intrusive form! You don't fully know yourself yet and you're vulnerable to being hijacked by external pressures. Being in your early 20s, just out of college, can be a hard place to be. She doesn't have a lot of power, as the story opens. Seems like everyone has expectations and assumptions about Jess - especially Ah Ma, who just feels casually entitled to the real estate in her head. The internal explanation, according to the narrative logic of the book, is that Jess is Ah Ma's true heir - she's the one person in their family who is most like Ah Ma." That's an explanation that's external to the book. "It's something that sets you apart from the rest of the world, carving you out from what's default and treated as real. ![]()
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