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Gaze As Origin Of Love And Power
- Min Jin Lee links the moment of falling in love to a gaze as the origin of romantic narrative energy.
- She frames the scene also as feminist commentary about how female value is socially assigned by male attention.
Value Is What Others Say
- Lee emphasizes that social value often comes from who notices you, not intrinsic qualities.
- She uses a third-party character to dramatize how public attention confers worth and danger.
Prepare For Hardship, Keep Working
- Expect suffering and keep working hard, Lee says, because preparation helps confront inevitable hardship.
- She presents this as a pragmatic life philosophy she learned from interviews with older women.