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...actually his last chance of happiness. Author O'Connor's stories are best read individually, for taken together they show a certain sameness of ideas, treatment, even phrasing. At his worst, O'Connor slips into the bathetic romanticism of the late Donn (The Woman of the Shee) Byrne; at his best, he writes like a James Joyce who has kissed the Blarney stone...
...took upon himself the awful task of writing the news of her sons' decision to Sin-shee Jang. "Mother has been tortured enough," he said bitterly, after the letter was mailed. "We want her to die now." He added, in helpless rage: "Those god-dammed Communists...
Last week Joe Jang got one last letter from China. Sin-shee Jang had killed herself by jumping into a well in the village...
Four years ago in San Francisco a 63-year-old Chinese matriarch named Sin-shee Jang decided to spend her declining years in the village of her ancestors, a hamlet named Kutow in Kwangtung Province. Sin-shee Jang was an old-country woman: her feet had been bound, and she liked the quiet scenes of her girlhood. Furthermore, in Kutow she owned a 14-room brick house and was a woman of wealth and importance. She bade her five Americanized sons goodbye, and sailed for home...
...Hong Kong dollars. All had refused to pay, had been forced to kneel on the links of chains, with other heavy chains around their necks, and had then been denied food & water. In the end, all had confessed. One had been publicly executed but, pending payment, Sin-shee Jang was being forced to wear a sign reading "Landlord" and to walk miles each day on her bound feet...