Why did the No-Name Woman commit suicide?

Perhaps she was thrown out because she was another mouth to feed during her husband's absence. No Name Woman's family is implicated in her ""crime"" and therefore must suffer the ransacking of their house.

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What happens to Kingston's aunt and family when her village discovers that she is pregnant?

What happened to Kingston's aunt? She jumped in the well with her baby.... What is Brave Orchid's personality? Brave Orchid is a proud and intelligent woman who comes off as both gentle and cruel in equal parts in the memoir. She appears throughout the book but figures most prominently in "Shaman," which depicts her life in China as a doctor and a woman of almost magical powers.

Why does the narrator's mother tell her the story of No-Name Woman?

Her mother made the narrator promise never to tell her father or anyone else about her aunt because she brought great dishonor to her family. She got pregnant which brought shame upon her and upon her family. It is because of her pregnancy that she is the ""no name woman."" What does the narrator think is the real punishment placed upon her aunt? According to the speaker, what is the real punishment inflicted upon the aunt? The real punishment is that she is now deliberately forgotten by her family. She would have to ask for food from other ghosts and steal food from people. She will have to suffer even after her death.

And another question, how and why does kingston attempt to fill in the gaps of her aunt's story?

Kingston tries to fill in the gaps in her mother's story. Kingston imagines what her aunt was like, how and why she got pregnant, who the father of the aunt's baby could have been, and why the aunt killed herself and the baby.