Chang-rae Lee/A Gesture Life

Number of Pages 5

A 5 page essay that on this love. While Franklin Hata, also affectionately known as "Doc" Hata, to the people of Bedley Run, is the central character of Chang=rae Lee's novel A Gesture Life, his life and its meaning exist within the midst of relationships with women, both in his present and remembered from his past. These relationships provide insight into Hata's character and why his adopted daughter Sunny accuses him of constructing his life around "gestures and politeness" (Lee 95). While even the incidental relationships with women perform this function in the narrative, this aspect of the Hata's characterization is primarily shown in his relationship with Sunny, an adolescent Korean girl named Kkuttaeh, K for short, and his lover Mary Burns. As this illustrates, the writer is choosing to pursue the second option for analysis, as this essay will pursue the literary form of the author's character system throughout the novel. No additional sources cited.


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