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"'And to be honest, Miss Walker, having a girl like you in the classroom would be very distracting to the boys in the class'" (Ng, 27). 

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"'And to be honest, Miss Walker, having a girl like you in the classroom would be very distracting to the boys in the class'" (Ng, 27). 

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This quote shows how in high school Marylin was not allowed to do the things she wanted. This marked the day that she would try to stand out and not conform to social norms. She would

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"You weren't here to find a man, she  told herself, you were here to find something better... The next day she had told him she dropped the class. Within a week they were lovers." (Ng, 39)

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"You weren't here to find a man, she  told herself, you were here to find something better... The next day she had told him she dropped the class. Within a week they were lovers." (Ng, 39)

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This quote shows how quickly she changed her goal, just because she met someone she admired. She promised herself she would not listen to her mother and find a man and settle, but in reality thats what she found herself doing, and although she loved him, she gave up her dreams in a way that would greatly change her life and her happiness.

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"Marylin felt like an undergraduate again, even her signature got soft and round, like it had been before she was married" (Ng, 137) 

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"Marylin felt like an undergraduate again, even her signature got soft and round, like it had been before she was married" (Ng, 137) 

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Marylin had ran away and got back into college. She brought a couple of her families things but overtime slowly changed and forgot about them. She was planning to never go back and completely start over her life, and follow through with her dreams of being a doctor, and to be alone, with no man to rely on like she always wanted it to be.

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" 'I was foolish' she said 'I made a terrible mistake.' " (Ng, 144)

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" 'I was foolish' she said 'I made a terrible mistake.' " (Ng, 144)

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Marylin had found out she was pregnant and called James. She knew that she could not raise the baby on her own, and attend college so she had to go back to James and rekindle their relationship for the babies sake. So therefore she had to change back into her old housewife self, but she promised herself that she would not change fully back into her old self, she told herself she would not cook and clean for her family.

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"It was a sign, Marylin decided. For her it was too late. But it wasn't for Lydia." (Ng, 147)

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"It was a sign, Marylin decided. For her it was too late. But it wasn't for Lydia." (Ng, 147)

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Lydia threw out the cook book and Marylin took that as a sign that she did not want to be a housewife either. That made Marylin completely change everything, from that point on she would prepare her daughter to become a doctor, like her dream. She did everything she could to prepare Lydia without asking her if it was what she wanted and dedicated all her time to Lydia, which left her other children lonely, neglected.

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"Without thinking, Marylin opens her arms, and Hannah stumbles in." (Ng, 248)

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"Without thinking, Marylin opens her arms, and Hannah stumbles in." (Ng, 248)

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Marylin finally realizes how similar she was to her own mother, forcing her ideals onto her daughter, and ignoring her other. And she decides to start over as a parent, progress, learn to listen, and care for her children instead of forcing them to be someone they are not.