The primary lenses I'm choosing to look at Everything Everywhere with is a combination of historic and socioeconomic with literary in a very similar way to Professor Fan's analysis of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (2010). In Everything Everywhere, the protagonist Evelynn Wang finds herself in a myriad of family and business trouble. These tie directly to the concepts Fan covered in lecture, generational trauma and a feeling of failing your parents and children, promised success according to a success frame and the ensuing disappointment that comes when conventional socio-economic success is not achieved, and a broad feeling of alienation in a foreign country. These tropes stem from the historical pressure on Asian Americans to be financially successful out of technical merit, and the ensuing idea that a lack of success is a personal failing. In Everything Everywhere this is seen in the way Evelynn lashes out against her husband Waymond upon seeing alternate versions of herself that are highly skilled, financially well off, and in many cases widely popular. Here there is a conflict between Evelynn's desire for success and her love for family, driven by her disappointment in her perceived failure in her real life. This thinking drives Evelynn into extreme nihilism, until Waymond's simple compassion changes her mind and makes her prioritize what she has, her family. This brings me to the final part of my analysis, that the absurdity shown throughout the film, and the way it weaves with compassion at the end, provides an answer to the perennial disappointment of trying to rationalize to Asian American experience. The conclusion drawn by the film is that the world is absurd and unfair, and that unconditional love and an acceptance of the absurd is how to survive and ultimately be happy. In the context of Asian American discourse, this is a rejection of the strict success frame in favor of kindness and acceptance.