Everything I Never Told You Quotes

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“What's wrong with your eyes?”, “Are you sure he is not marrying for a green card?”. Just a few of the things said to and about James Lee in Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You. However, the discrimination did not end there, it continued with his children as well. The Lee family endured no less than the 1970 American Racism, being the main outliers in Middlewood, Ohio. Throughout the novel, the Lee family is presented with many societal and personal struggles. James and his deceased daughter Lydia were victims of society’s racism, eventually leading to the family’s hidden secrets and the death of sixteen year old Lydia Lee. September, 1957. James Lee began teaching American history at Radcliffe, the women’s college at Harvard. When he …show more content…
As the novel revolves around Lydia's unfortunate passing, Lydia’s life was not so easy. Out of all the biracial children, Lydia has a stellar resemblance to her white mom, Marylin. This had Marylin choosing favourites for her children, and James seeking someone to fill the void in his life for being an outlier through Lydia. This set her on a much higher pedestal than her siblings, putting immense pressure on her to succeed. Not only did James have a cultural setback, Marylin also faced a setback in her life from dropping out of medical school when she was pregnant with Nath. Marylin was extremely intelligent and wanted to attend medical school to become a doctor. With societal pressure about motherhood and femininity of putting children first and staying home, her dreams of becoming a doctor were not fulfilled, resulting in her looking to Lydia to fill the void of her. The pressure for her to excel started at a young age. This proceeded to her having a constant fear of disappointing her parents and ‘failing them’. Lydia was never able to fulfil her desires nor express them due to this constant fear of disappointment. But she can’t make herself say

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