The poem below is taken from page 1 of fish cheeks by Amy Tan, it shows a man versus himself and man versus society conflict between her culture and the American culture. In the story, Amy developed a crush on an American boy, and later discorvered that her mom invited the boy’s family to come over for Christmas eve dinner. She then freaks out and thinks that Americans will despise her culture and her. Then when the family arrives for dinner, Amy is deeply embarrassed and humiliated because her relative behaved poorly, which bothered the Americans. How will Amy overcome her forbidden crush on the boy, if ever.