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DeedTheInky t1_j6mp8ny wrote

Reply to comment by Caleb_Trask19 in Finally read East of Eden - Review and reflection by mikaelnguyen

I just read it a couple of months ago, I thought it held up really well. There are a few bits of language that are racially a bit shocking and as someone else said, the descriptions of some female characters can be quite overly-detailed but the general themes and message are pretty right-on I thought. :)

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mikaelnguyen OP t1_j6o7iv8 wrote

Totally agree about the racist language. Being Asian and my wife also being of Chinese descent, the treatment of Lee by smaller side characters were pretty upsetting (the nurse at the end kinda turned my gears).

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DeedTheInky t1_j6ojz35 wrote

Yeah the way some people treat Lee is rough, and there's also a side character just straight-up called the n-word. Like that's literally the name everybody calls her by. D:

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mikaelnguyen OP t1_j6oxgge wrote

I was appalled by that as well especially how no one was empathetic to her passing and still referred to her as that even at her empty funeral. So sad and truly awful.

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