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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.”*° BIBLIOGRAPHY CARTER, Sue, Ann Choi Preserves a Way of Life in Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety, The Star, 7 May 2016, https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/ books/2016/05/07/ann-choi-preserves-a-way- of-life-in-kays-lucky-coinvariety.html (accessed 25 May 2019). Cuo1, Ann Y. K., Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety, Toronto, Simon and Schuster Canada, 2016. Kim, Min-sun, Non-Western Perspectives on Human Communication, Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, 2002. TRIANDIS, H.C., The Self and Social Behavior in Differing Cultural Contexts, Psychological Review, Vol. 96 (1989), 506-520. 19 Ibid., 250. 50 Ibid., 205. + 169 +
