SparkNotes: The Joy Luck Club: Queen Mother of the Western Skies: “Double Face” & “A Pair of Tickets”
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Summary & AnalysisQueen Mother of the Western Skies: &Double Face& & &A Pair of Tickets&
The Joy Luck ClubAmy Tan
Queen Mother of the Western Skies: &Double Face& & &A Pair of Tickets&Queen Mother of the Western Skies: Introduction, &Magpies,& & &Waiting Between the Trees&Queen Mother of the Western Skies: &Double Face& & &A Pair of Tickets&, page 2
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Summary&Lindo Jong: &Double Face&
How can she think she can blend in? Only
her skin and her hair are Chinese. Inside&she is all American-made.
Lindo Jong discusses her daughter Waverly, who is planning
her wedding and honeymoon to China with Rich. To Lindo, Waverly has
expressed her fear that she will blend in so well with the Chinese that
she won&t be allowed to return to America. When Lindo replies that
the Chinese will know Waverly is American before she even opens
her mouth, Waverly is disappointed. Lindo reproaches herself for
having tried to make her daughter half Chinese and half American,
when such a combination is impossible. She regrets not having taught
Waverly enough about her Chinese heritage.
Before her wedding, Waverly takes Lindo to her fashionable
hair stylist, Mr. Rory. Lindo believes that Waverly does so because
she is ashamed of her mother. While Mr. Rory and Waverly discuss
her as though she were not there, Lindo wears her &American face&&the face
the Americans think is Chinese. But inside she is ashamed, because
she is proud of Waverly, but Waverly is not proud of her. When Mr.
Rory notes that Lindo and Waverly resemble one another, Lindo smiles
her true smile, wearing her &Chinese face.& When Mr. Rory hurries
away, Lindo ponders the resemblance in the mirror, thinking about
the internal qualities that both women also share. She remembers
seeing herself and her own mother back in China, comparing their
features then. Her mother told her that she could read her fortune
in her face. She had told Lindo that she was fortunate to have a
straight nose, because a girl with a bent nose is &bound for misfortune
. . . always following the wrong things, the wrong people, the worst
Lindo talks about the difficulties of keeping one&s &Chinese
face& in America. When she first came to San Francisco, she worked
in a fortune-cookie factory, where she met An-mei Hsu. An-mei introduced
her to Tin Jong, who would become Lindo&s husband. While pregnant
with Waverly, Lindo bumped her nose on the bus, making it crooked.
She suspects that the crooked nose damaged her thinking, for when
Waverly was born, Lindo saw how closely she resembled her and suddenly
feared that Waverly&s life path would resemble her own. She thus
named her Waverly, after the street they lived on, to let her know
that America, San Francisco in particular, was where she belonged.
She knew that by naming her daughter after their street, she was
taking the first step in making her wholly American, and thus alienating
her daughter from herself.
In the beauty parlor mirror, Lindo notices that Waverly&s
nose is crooked like her own, even though Lindo&s nose is crooked
due to an accident, not her genes. Lindo urges her daughter to get
cosmetic surgery, but Waverly laughs because she is pleased to share
this feature with Lindo. She says she thinks it makes them look
&devious&: people know they are two-faced, but they cannot always
tell what they are thinking. Lindo thinks about the two faces both
women share, and wonders which is American and which is Chinese.
When Lindo visited China, she wore Chinese clothing and used local
currency, but people still knew that she was an American&she wonders what
she has lost.
Summary&Jing-mei Woo: &A Pair of Tickets&
In the final story of The Joy Luck Club, Jing-mei
discusses her trip to China to meet her half-sisters, and she finishes
the story of her mother&s life. When Jing-mei was a teenager, although
she knew she looked Chinese, she denied that she possessed any inner,
essential Chinese nature below the surface. Suyuan had insisted
that once one is born Chinese, one cannot help but feel and think
Chinese. Now that she is in China for the first time, Jing-mei feels
that there was truth in her mother&s assertions&something in her
does feel at home in China. Yet, she realizes that she has never
known precisely what it means to be Chinese.
Jing-mei now thinks back to the origins of her trip. Not
wanting to deceive or disappoint her sisters Chwun Yu and Chwun
Hwa, she persuaded Lindo Jong to write to them about their mother&s
death. Jing-mei and her sisters are the only known living relatives
of Suyuan, as Suyuan&s entire family died when a Japanese bomb landed
on their house, killing several generations in an instant.
by , September 10, 2012
Is there any symbolism in this short story? I was assigned to analyze it like a "professor" and I am not sure if there is any symbolism. All I know is that when Jing-mei's mother offered her to keep to piano it was like a peace offering or forgiveness.
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by , November 06, 2012
You could always do it yourself. I mean, we sometimes get books in our lives that Sparknotes doesn't always offer to summarize and give us straightforward answers to.
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