Talk:Fa Li/@comment-29378940-20170210211754

I think this is worded incorrectly. It states that Fa Li ignores Mulan after she and her father fight, but rather it seemed to me that while Fa Li was very upset as well about her husband being sent away to a war he had no chance of returning from, she sat back down because she knew there was no comfort she could give Mulan, despite silently agreeing with her. She did comfort Mulan earlier when Fa Zhou told Mulan that she had dishonor end him. But being a stonily traditional Chinese wife, and you must remember at this point women were to be seen, not heard, and their main function was to run the household, cook, and raise children and overall make their husbands lives as simple and enjoyable as possible, they didn't even have a choice over how many CHILDREN they were allowed to have, and were sometimes forced into abortion or sterilization if they had more than two children, therefore, to speak out in arguement with her husband, whom she was already worried about, would have been utterly disrespectful and unacceptable in this culture.

Also, what comfort can you give a child, especially an emotional teenage girl, who is struggling to accept her beloved father is going to leave and she will never see him again? Let's give Fa Li a bit of credit for letting Mulan work out her emotions for herself instead of jumping on her case and saying she shouldn't argue with her father at all, which would have been a traditional response often followed by a caning to remind a female child of their place in life. Honestly, this family was far more affectionate and lenient than most for the culture and time period.