The Woman Warrior

I did not particularly enjoy reading this text. I was rather confused with the episodes in the book and had to keep going back and forth to determine which scene came before which, and this was very time consuming. However, I did enjoy the story because being from an Indian family, I can relate to a Chinese American as some of our cultural values are similar. However, in Indian society, women are not supposed to be warriors, an option apparently possible in Chinese culture. I had trouble with the fact that the Fa Mu Lan was not recognized as having an identity until she went away from home, protected her people, fought with men and won, and came back and became submissive to her husband again. She tells her in-laws that she is now a wife and mother and a daughter-in-law and will assume her role as one. How can she forget the woman warrior part of herself? I would imagine that it was extremely difficult for a woman to accomplish what she did, and then go back home to become submissive to the demands of a domestic wife. Therefore, was she really a “woman warrior”? She did not fight off the constraints society put on her.