His Son’s Big Doll by Hwang Chun-Ming vs I Love Mary by Huang Chunming

His Son’s Big Doll by Hwang Chun-Ming Vs. I Love Mary by Huang Chunming
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His Son's Big Doll Vs. I Love Mary by Huang Chunming
Born in 1939 in Taiwan, Huan Chu-Ming is considered one of the most respected Taiwanese writers and teachers. In her two stories, "His Son's Big Doll " and "I Love Mary," she talks about Taiwanese people's tragic but humorous lives. Her story, "His Son's Big Doll," talks about Kunshu, a Taiwanese man who has become a sandwich man by wearing a signboard-wearing an advertisement to provide for his family. In her second story, "I Love Mary," she narrates about Dawei Chen, who works at Taipei’s foreign establishment, and the nature of his work as well as working in a foreign and has pushed him to love his dog, Mary. The narrator portrays themes of survival, family ties, and loneliness through the main characters, Kunshu and Dawei Chen.
Themes and Narrative Styles
Survival and Break of Family ties
Survival is the critical theme in the story "His Sons Big Doll ."In the story, Kunshu dresses like a circus clown and parades back and forth along city streets advertising a local theatre's upcoming event. Everything from the start of the article to the last addresses in detail the survival tactics adopted in modern-day Taiwan. Arguably, survival has pushed people to extreme ends where they must do everything, including sacrificing family time and dignity to earn money. In pursuit of more money, people no longer have time for families, which has resulted in a decline in family ties, as seen in the case of Kunshu and his son, A-long. Hwang reports that
“…. the sun, like a fireball rolling along with overhead, followed the people below, causing the perspiration to flow freely" .[Hwang, Chun-ming. His Son’s Big Doll, 144.]
In the hot sun, Kunshu was attired from his head to toes in a very strange costume that made him look like a 19th-century European military officer. The narrative style is more descriptive, making the setting more real and vivid. Hwang’s narration describes the lives of ordinary people and what it takes to survive in the given society.
The narrator has created an image of what it looks like to navigate the modern Taiwan world. She has presented examples of how people survive, including through relief packages provided by the local churches and birth control, as seen with Kunshu’s wife. Then there is the glory of having two jobs at a go. All these are survival strategies adopted by modern Taiwanese, including Kunshu, to survive. As seen through the narrator’s storyline, Kunshu wa...