Oldal 171 [171]
MALE-FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS CULTURES...
he kept talking as if he hadnt heard me." This sentence is informative of
Mary/Yu-Rhee’s irritation with his ‘Gerede’ or idle talk he deploys to cover
his embarrassment.
CONCLUSION
As has been demonstrated, Mary/Yu-Rhee’s behavior reveals patterns
pertaining both to the independent and the interdependent self-construal
in the context of male-female relationships. The fact that she chooses to
terminate her relationship with Mr. Allen/Will (representing the independent
self-construal) and Joon-Ho (representing the dependent self-construal) also
serves as evidence for her in-betweenness, which makes it difficult for her to
navigate the challenges of finding a partner she feels comfortable with. As she
herself puts it at one point in the novel: “Maybe I should give up on men and
get a dog.”*°
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19 Ibid., 250.
50 Ibid., 205.
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