The Smuggling of Tie Co

I think that Tie Co believes she is in love with Fabian. But from the outside looking in as an audience, I think she is in love with the idea of him. The fact that she gives up everything for him is evidence enough that she had some feelings for him other than that of friendship, which was brought up in class. If it were just friendship she could have just given him 50 dollars. Tie Co goes through pretty drastic measures for Fabian, I do not think that this could be put on any type collectivist mentality or sacrificing oneself for a friend. I do think that it was self sacrifice for love. More evidence that Tie Co was in love with him is the fact that she tells him that she likes him on page 107. In the story the language that the author uses is all positive (i.e. strong, well built, fine features). Fabian seems like a hero to the Chinese community in Canada from the way the narrator tells the story. One might consider that the person telling the story is Tie Co because of how admiring the narrator is of him.