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What is the psychology of Gallimard in M. Butterfly leading to 24 years of relationship with Song and why is he a metaphor to orientalism.
I want to understand the psychology of Gallimard such that he was enboldened in China (took Song as a mistress, had an affair with a westerner) and I also want to understand how and why he did not discover or did not want to discover that Song Liling is a man. Also why he allowed himself to be used by Song Liling in her/his spying when they were back in France and he worked as a courier.
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