No Name Woman

"No Name Woman" In the essay “No Name Woman” by Maxine Hong Kingston, she explores the life of her aunt, piecing her life and her aunt’s together to find meaning and to try and figure out a connection between her life and her aunt’s. Having been told the story of her aunt, Kingston realizes that there was a point to why her mother has told her about her aunt. Maybe it was because …

…what her aunt’s life was all about. She is also trying to figure out why her aunt has this big impact on her life when she barely knows anything about her. Kingston still is puzzled why her family chooses to forget about her aunt. She explains that even after her aunt’s death her family and the villagers still choose to forget and why they make it seem as if she had never existed.