Take from “No name woman” by Maxine Hong Kingston

Eccentricity- noun

Definition: an oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct;queerness, strangeness, oddness, freakishness, aberration.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eccentricity?s=t

From page 1233: “on a farm near the sea, a woman who tended her appearance reaped a reputation for eccentricity.”

From defining this word it help me understand that the married women in the story that the author described were trying to the guys interest by behaving in a eccentric manor.

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