Maxine Hong's Imagination

What does Maxine's description and imagination about her aunt say about her?

"It could very well have been, however, that my aunt did not take subtle enjoyment of her friend, but, a wild woman, kept rollicking company. Imagining her free with sex doesn't fit, though. I don't know any women like that, or men either."

This is one of the many ideas that Maxine came up with concerning her Aunt - who her Aunt was and what she was like. I don't know about other topics but when talking about her aunt, Maxine is very blunt and doesn't seem to care about what comments people will make on the assumptions she has about her Aunt. She is very straight forward and doesn't want to waste her time outlining ever idea she has. Maxine's imagination is huge and seems ongoing which helps me come to the conclusion that Maxine is the type of person always on her toes and on the lookout, very cautious and alert, waiting for something to happen.

"She may have gone to the pigsty as a last act of responsibility: she would protect this child as she had protected its father."

In this quote, Maxine seems to put herself in other people's shoes to feel they way they felt and to see what they saw and to find out why people might've done what they did. There was a sense of compassion, sorrow, and pain. It shows that Maxine isn't a person that only thinks about herself, and that she's not cruel. I also could see that Maxine was trying to picture what she would've done if she had been in her Aunt's position and decided that she would've done the same as her Aunt had.