What do you thing?

B.B. is a boy or a girl?

To me i think that BB would likely be a girl. Her friends mentioned in the passage are mostly girls. Furthermore, she is quite emotional. She did not sleep for the night after hearing the message that her father had left for her. She kept thinking about it. When she asked Seth about why his family divorced, he seemed rather angry, which a guy should normally act.

Also i think that BB is a girl because when little Timmy died, BB's mother wanted another children. I think that her mother wanted a healthy son so that they can pass down their family name. Much like the Chinese tradition. BB's father was not pleased to have another child as he didn't want to go through the hell of another sick child. It had a huge impact on him so it might have changed his point of view.

Comparing this to the taximen story in Little Ironies, one major difference is that the writer of BB

did not identify the identity of BB while Catherine Lim wrote that the writer was a male as

he had to make money for his wife and children.

Both writer wrote that the main character of the story, in this case it is BB and the taximen's

daughter, have improper friends around them. BB had friends that smoked.The daughter had

bad friends that got her into being bad.

This is all that i can conclude about the two stories