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In “M. Butterfly” David Hwang tried to link imperialism, racism, and sexism in a very complicated love affair between a French diplomat named Rene Gillimard and a Chinese male actor named Song Liling. Gillamard so desperately wants Song to be his fantasy stereotypical Asian woman who is beautiful, submissive and will do anything for her love that he ignores all evidence that would reveal to him that Song is a man and a spy for the Chinese government. One sign than Gillimard ignored is Song’s refusal to remove all her clothes in front of him even thought they already slept together and after they planned to have a child together “Gillimard: I want to see you…naked. Song: I thought you understood my modesty...” It is here where the submissive woman fantasy of Gillimard is broken when Song refuses to remove her clothes, yet Gillimard looks past it and accepts that Song is embarrassed of her body because he is in love with her. After the love affair begins, he compares his relationship with Song to the one in Puccini’s opera “Madame Butterfly.” In that opera a submissive Asian woman waits for her western lover for 3 years, however when he does return he takes his child and the Asian woman kills her self because “De