Themes
What is one of the main sources of conflict between all the mothers and daughters?
Expectation vs Hope; Chinese vs American; Submission vs Boldness
Cunning/Patience; Boldness
How did Lindo manipulate Huang Tai Tai?
She told her she had a nightmare where the ancestors threatened to curse her and her husband if the marriage continued.
What is the name of Waverly's daughter?
Shoshana
When do the Japanese begin invading China (Kweilin)?
What is the conflict in Rose and Lena's marriages?
They are both too passive, conflating submissiveness with love because of their mothers' teachings.
Suyuan gives her daughter a jade necklace. What does she tell her it represents?
Her life's importance.
Where does Rose's mother, An-mei, write Bing's name after his death?
What does An-Mei call her grandmother?
What is a concubine?
What is one thing the daughters want to achieve that the mothers do not understand?
American assimilation
Their marriage is very unstable and will eventually shatter, but Waverly is oblivious.
Her aunties did not break the news to her long lost sisters that their mother was dead.
What is the name of Jing-mei's husband?
Trick question! She doesn't have one.
When does Suyuan arrive in San Francisco?
1949