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“Storying is one way of making sense of our lives” (414). In the three TV
dramas, people are taught to value a stable and harmonious family, to respect
traditional family relationships, and to save those broken families. One
interesting thing happened in all these TV dramas is that all the third-party
individuals (the mistresses) voluntarily left their lovers upon realizing the harm
their affairs had done to the families, especially the innocent children. It may not
be tme in real life; however, it at least represents the good intention of the
popular literature writers of these stories.
University of Cincinnati
Shaorong Huang
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