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Questions on the daughters' conflicts, inherited meanings, and the novel's ending in Shanghai.
#literature
22 questions
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Lena and Harold split household costs down the middle and keep a refrigerator list. What larger conflict does that system expose?
In "Four Directions," why is Waverly so anxious about telling Lindo she plans to marry Rich Schields?
Ted sends Rose divorce papers and presses her about the house. What conflict must Rose finally face?
At the New Year crab dinner in "Best Quality," Waverly's criticism of Jing-mei's writing most directly reopens which conflict?
Waverly remembers quitting chess after a public fight with Lindo. What does that old plot conflict show?
In "Waiting Between the Trees," Ying-ying recalls losing her own chi and living as a passive "ghost" for years. What does this memory reveal about her urgency with Lena?
On the trip to meet her half-sisters, what is Jing-mei's central worry about Suyuan?
In "Four Directions," Waverly goes to confront Lindo about Rich and finds her asleep, looking small and harmless. What revelation reverses Waverly's assumption?
In "Waiting Between the Trees," Ying-ying says she was born in the year of an animal that is both fierce and patient, waiting among the trees. Which animal is it?
An-mei tells Rose she is "without wood." What does Rose learn from that judgment?
After the crab dinner, Suyuan gives Jing-mei the jade pendant and calls it her life's importance. What does Jing-mei learn from her mother?
Canning Woo tells Jing-mei how Suyuan lost the twins during the war. What revelation changes the daughters' understanding of Suyuan?
In "Double Face," Lindo compares her reflection to Waverly's in a mirror and thinks of her "Chinese face" and her "American face." What inherited meaning does she hope Waverly keeps?
Jing-mei chooses a poor crab at dinner, and Suyuan calls this evidence of her "best quality." What does the crab come to symbolize?
The shaky table and falling vase in Lena's house work as a symbol of what?
In Rose's yard, weeds have taken over while her marriage is ending. What symbolic conflict do they sharpen?
At the Shanghai airport, the sisters look at a photograph of themselves together. What inherited meaning does that image hold?
The novel uses multiple first-person narrators rather than one continuous narrator. What does that structure let the daughters' stories do?
Why is Jing-mei's meeting with the twins an effective ending to the book's frame?
Each major section begins with a brief parable-like frame. How do those frames shape the daughters' vignettes?
Jing-mei narrates the opening Joy Luck Club chapter and the final trip to China. What structural role does she fill?
The ending moves from the daughters' American conflicts to Shanghai. What does that shift accomplish?
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