Chang-rae Lee, in A Gesture Life, features a Japanese immigrant named Franklin Hata. Hata seeks to assimilate into American society. To be part of society, Hata tries to become the perfect citizen of society, a "mascot" that everyone knows and respects. To further his assimilation, he tries to complete the picture of a whole, healthy family as many ideal Americans do. By adapting Sunny, Hata wishes to assimilate through a parental figure. Through a caring parental figure, a good parent and a good legacy, supremely suggesting that a successful parent in everything is a successful parent in society. But Sunny plays a different character in her life, one that alters the idea of ​​Hata as she is a subject of miscegenation who wanders on the fringes of Bedley Run. With an adopted daughter like Sunny, Hata has nothing but disappointments. Maybe you don't know it, but all you care about is your reputation in this snotty, shitty town, and how I could hurt him... "I don't need you," said- she gently and without remorse. "I never needed you. I don't know why, but you needed me, but never the other way around." (94-96) The night Hata looks for Sunny at Gizzi's house, the pure figure of femininity that Hata aspires to disappears before her eyes. As he watches Sunny "run her hands over herself, pressing her tight shirt up and down her bare thighs, then up... she moved and danced with every suggestion, and then finally she touched herself in places that 'no honest woman would... .... middle of paper ...... on her doorstep As Sunny arrives, she is a subject of crossbreeding of an African-American GI and a Korean bar girl. disappoints Hata because Hata wants his good inheritance and representation in the society of a pure and good family to disappear. As Sunny grows up, Hata offers him many different activities to build a reputation for himself and Sunny, but Sunny refuses. to follow his wishes and goes to the sidelines of Bedley Run Gizzi's house results in Hata's disappointment as he wants his daughter to be well educated and well represented in public although Hata is capable of being the perfect parent in the. society, with Sunny, Hata cannot assimilate into American society as he wanted. No matter how hard he tries to be the number one citizen and the perfect parent..