The choices we make every day strongly define the type of person we are. Everyone has their own opportunity costs, but what is someone willing to give up to get more? This is exactly what Maxine Kingston does in her essay “No Name Woman.” She openly challenges her traditional Chinese culture to write about her aunt, which would normally be extremely taboo in her family. She wishes to gain a greater understanding of her aunt and the hardships she faced being a slander to her entire family. The opportunity Kingston faces is to go against his family's word and betray their government. Additionally, Kingston uses a plethora of language and diction to convey his tone and show us how he felt about his aunt. From paragraphs 24 and 25 Kingston uses vivid imagery to really allow us to imagine his aunt and how much care she put into herself. . Since Kingston put so much detail into her description of her aunt, we can see that she actually admires her aunt's beauty and is apathetic towards the suffering she has gone through. To continue, there are other sections where Kingston actually feels sorry for her aunt. For example, at the end of paragraph 25 Kingston says that her aunt is doing so much work to make herself presentable, that she hoped the man she loved would appreciate her and not just be a man with tits and ass. Another example where Kingston feels sorry for her aunt is in paragraph 22. Kingston explains how she doesn't see herself as her aunt anyway. Her aunt had two sides to her, a calm woman and a wild, sex-free woman. Kingston was really shocked by this and said, "Unless he sees his life branching into mine, he doesn't give me any ancestral help." Despite the fact that Kingston... is at the center of the card... its ancestral culture has adapted to American values ​​that still remain here in America. While she practiced this “American feminine” in school, she was molded from an early age to respect honor, family, and Chinese culture itself. As a result, Kingston nevertheless began to steer clear of his family's beliefs. Writing this book is also ironic because even though her family told her not to tell anyone about her aunt, here she is writing a book about it. Throughout the book Kingston has this “love hate” relationship between her and her aunt. Kingston is either criticizing what his aunt did or praising her for her efforts. However, this is only part of the real moral question: should he follow his Chinese beliefs or go towards American culture? Ultimately Kingston does an amazing job with his language to clearly express his feelings throughout the essay.