Homework, November 30th 2007

Characterisation of Kitty Wu

In Paul Austers novel " Moon Palace " Kitty Wu is the most important female character. She was born in 1950 in Taiwan as the daughter of a Kuomintang general and his second concubine. She has got a brother and a half-sister. Her father died when she was very young. Therefore she underwent the almost the same childhood as Marco, whose mother died when he was also very young. After having spent her childhood in Tokyo, Kitty Wu immigrated to the United States where she went to school.
Marco meets Kitty Wu the first time when he wants to visit Zimmer. He goes to his apartment without knowing that Zimmer doesn't live there anymore. Instead of finding his old friend Marco joins a breakfast of the new inhabitants of the apartment. There he meets Kitty and they get to know each other. Even though it is their first meeting Kitty kisses Marco to say goodbye. After that, they don't meet again. But when Marco stays in Central Park, Kitty and Zimmer decide to look for him. They find Marco and the young chinese woman falls in love with him. After Marco looses his job because Effing died, the couple moves together.
Kitty wants to be independant from Marco and therefore she start's to work. They seem to live in a perfect relationship in which they complement each other but later on, Kitty and Marco break up with their relationship. Kitty gets pregnant and they notice that they have got different ideas of how to live together in future. Marco wants Kitty to bear that baby but Kitty does not want to. She isn't disposed o give up her dream of becoming a ballerina.
While reading Paul Austers " Moon Palace " the reader learns, that Kitty Wu is a person with many traits of character. The Chinese girl is an open-minded and warm-hearted person who cares for for others and feels a kind of responsible for them. At first this becomes clear when Kitty went to Marcos apartment to see wheter he is fine or not. But even when she starts to look for him in Central Park - togehter with Zimmer - you can conclude that she is very responsible. She also has got spontaneous traits. This becomes clear when she kissed Marco after their first meeting and after she rescued him in Central Park. Marco is a kind of fascinated and feels attracted by Kitty's naturalness, her geniality and her individual character.
Kitty enjoys being in a relationship with Marco and the physical love with him. They seem to be the perfect alliance, but when Kitty Wu gets preganant, you get to know that this is rather not the case. The pregnancy bursts their relationship and it's harmony. Kitty doesn't want to give up her dream, namely becoming a ballerina. In contrast to Marco she does not want to have the baby. This decision of the Chinese girl named Kitty Wu demonstrates her strong ambition which finally contributes to the ending of her relationship with Marco Fogg.
In consideration of her appearance can say that Kitty Wu is a pretty, small, Chinese woman. She does not wear a bra under her dresses which are sometimes extraordinary. But when she does not wear extraordinary clothes, her outfit is made up of T-shirt and jeans. She wears an indian band around her head and silver bracelets around her frail wrists.
All in all you can conclude, that the Chinese girl Kitty Wu is a very friendly and helpful person, espeacially for Marco who she likes very much.