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... Cheng Huan takes care of Lucy, and at one point gives her a doll which is very important to Lucy’s character as it is a metaphor for some of her personality and even physical traits. ... The doll he gives her is dressed almost the same way as Lucy, her clothes also made of Chinese silk, her skin fair like Lucy’s and she does not look Asian. Cheng Huan might have been planning to give her the doll all along as a gift, making it for Lucy so it resembles her, therefore also being a reminder of her beauty at times when he could not see her.
Another use of the doll in Broken Blossoms is to display Lucy’s first sincerely happy emotions. When Cheng Huan first hands her the doll her eyes shine a little, they look alive for the first and I think only time in the movie. ... She lifts the doll’s arms, bends its legs, puts her in a sitting position, discovering for the first time what children discover around the age of two when they become fully conscious of the use of their toys. Lucy, who probably never had any toys, can finally know what it feels like to be a child, to be amused by such a simple thing as a doll.
Approximate Word count = 1031
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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