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Gish JenWho's Irish?
Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1999A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
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Compare two or more stories in Who’s Irish? and discuss the larger theme of what it means to be “American.”
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Choose two or more stories from Who’s Irish? and examine the effect that unfulfilled cultural expectations, for both Chinese immigrants and their children, have on these families as a whole.
3.
How does Gish Jen use language as a means of conveying isolation for some of the characters in this collection?
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