9/11/22- Toll of the Sea: Throughout this film, white superiority is shown as a very prominant concept, through the Lotus Flower's excitement to go to America and wear fancy clothes, to the American Seaman's friends' disapproval of him marrying an Asian woman. In fact, the main reason the American Seaman claimed to marry Lotus Flower was because she was "different," showing how she was just a playtoy/ornament for him. Despite the American Seaman's continued acts of disloyalty, the Lotus Flower continues to refer to her husband as an "honorable man," partly because she believes that he, as a white man, can do no wrong, and partly to save face from the disapproving Asian women. At the end, Lotus Flower conveniently takes her own life, allowing her white lover and his new white fiancee to live happily ever after, "consoling Western audiences with a fantasy of colonial power over the ever-yielding East" (Liu, 25)