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Up to here, how the masculinity was established and realized by the protagonist of <Cry out if You're Happy>, Bianrongda(비엔롱다) was examined. Chili(츠리) expresses a skeptical perspective about the masculinity as a normative ideal through the process in which Bianrongda established the masculinity. In addition, she takes notice of the risk of the masculinity Bianrongda faces, and she anatomizes the duplicity of the involved masculinity. Particularly, Chili suggests the departure from the normative masculinity by leaving the protagonist, Bianrongda. However, there appear some cases of conformity to the hegemonic masculinity of the day at the same time. It is the case in that the male ego made up of leaving is also originally a genderized man and the one to obey the hegemonic masculinity. In short, it is said that Chili suggests an imaginary exit from a boring everyday life as well as reflects the crisis and chaos of Chinese middle-age men in the 1990~2000’s through the loss and recovery of masculinity of Bianrongda. The process exposes the duplicity of the masculinity of patriarchal societies and shows the masculinity can be a privilege and the oppression.

masculinity, the risk of the masculinity, the recovery of masculinity, hegemonic masculinity, privilege, oppression