Analyzing Characters and Plot Events
What does the narrator realize as a result of this
experience?
All of us, our family and the Chinese guests, stopped
eating to watch the activities of the Gleasons. I wanted to
giggle. Then I caught my mother's eyes on me. She
frowned and shook her head slightly, and I understood
the message: the Gleasons were not used to Chinese
ways, and they were just coping the best they could. For
some reason I thought of celery strings.
"The All-American Slurp,"
Lensey Namioka,
The Gleasons are trying to teach the Lins some
American customs.
O The Gleasons act rudely when asked to follow the
Lins' traditions.
O TNS Gleasons struggle with Chinese customs, as
the Lins had with American ones.