The story “The Case of the Dead Infants” is a terrible example of a woman who takes a wrong path and loses her chastity, which is not virginity, but purity. The Chinese ideal for a woman is chastity, which is purity infidelity to one man, even after his death. In the story, Shao-Shih’s husband died when she just twenty-three years old. She wants to shine over all women and want to be admired. She refuses to remarriage and remained as a young chaste widow for ten years. Chih-Chu is an evil man and he wants to destroy her chastity and use her in whatever way he can. He uses Te-Kuei to seduce Shao-Shih from her chastity. They got a baby and Shao-Shih wants Te-Kuei to kill the infant because this baby is the evidence that she loses her chastity and she does not want to disgrace herself and her dead husband. At the end of the story, Shao-Shih murders Te-Kuei after her baby died. Then she hangs herself. The ending of this story, Shao-Shih, Te-Kuei, and Chih-Chu all get punishments for their behavior and greed.…show more content… Ancient Chinese people think that wives must be faithful their husbands and widows should remain faithful to their dead husbands and should not remarry. Shao-Shih is a young woman when her husband died, she has right to pursue her own life and start a new marriage. Because of female chastity, she gives up her new life and becomes a widow for ten years. Even though she keeps her chastity ten years, people still think she loses her chastity after they know her sexual affair. From Shao-Shih’s words and behavior: she vowed to be a chaste widow, otherwise she will kill herself with a knife or a rope, we can see that pure widow chastity is a high ideal in traditional Chinese society. Death is the only way that she could preserve her chastity and a way to repay her first