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The First-Person perspective in The Buddha in the Attic highlights the unheard voices of the picture brides. In the first chapter, these Picture Brides leave behind their families and homes in Japan and, sail to America to meet their new husbands. on the boat, the picture brides shared their dreams and fears. For example, The Picture brides said "At night we dreamed of our husbands."  and "We dreamed of our older and prettier sisters who had been sold to the geisha houses by our fathers so that the rest of us might eat, and when we woke we were gasping for air. For a second I thought I was her." These quotes let the reader immersed themselves in the picture of the bride's experience.  Later in the novel, the picture brides have to pretend like they are invisible. For example, The picture bride said “Appear eager to please. Say “A girl must blend into a room: she must be present without appearing to exist. We knew how to behave at funerals, and how to write short, melancholy poems about the passing of autumn that were exactly seventeen syllables long.” this quote highlights how the picture brides is always unheard, and it shows how the brides have to blend in with their surrounding.