Characters
This character is Waverly's husband
Who is Rich?
This annual family gathering is the main setting of the chapter.
What is the Chinese New Year dinner/Suyuan's home?
This is the major theme shown by the jade pendant.
What is self-worth?
This author wrote the Joy Luck Club.
Who is Amy Tan?
This is the cultural holiday being celebrated during this chapter.
What is Chinese New Year?
This character gives Jing-mei the jade pendant.
Who is Suyuan?
This is the main reason Jing-Mei is uncomfortable during the dinner.
What is Waverly's criticism
This theme appears when Jing-Mei doubts herself.
What is Personal Identity?
This city is where the modern day part of the story takes place.
Where is San Fransico?
This symbolizes the bond between mothers and daughters.
What is the Jade Pendant?
This character makes Jing-mei feel inferior by bragging during dinner.
Who is Waverly?
This object becomes the turning point of the chapter when Suyuan gives it to Jing-Mei.
What is the Jade Pendant?
This theme reflects how mothers try to pass on strength to their daughters.
What is generational connection?
This is the reason Waverly gives her family the best crab at the dinner.
What is she is naturally self centered by appears kind?
This symbolizes bad luck and consequences.
What is the crab?
This character is the child of Waverly and Rich
Who is Shoshana?
This is the reason Suyuan couldn't eat.
What is Waverly taking the good crabs?
This theme is shown when Suyuan does thing for Jing-Mei even when she doesn't realize.
What is sacrifice?
This is the emotion Jing-Mei struggles with most of the chapter.
What is insecurity?
This cultural practice is a belief that Suyuan has that Jing-Mei struggles to understand.
What are superstitions?
This character feels like she can never "win" compared to Waverly.
Who is Jing-mei?
This deeper conflict controls the plot and shows Jing-Mei's internal struggle.
What is Jing-Mei's insecurity and comparison to Waverly?
This complex theme explains why Jing-Mei constantly feels conflicted through her mother.
What is Mother-daughter relationships?
This lesson Jing-Mei learns by the end to connect the chapter together.
This is the action of choosing the broken crabs.
What is a bad omen?