Struggle
She founded the original Joy Luck Club while awaiting the Japanese invasion of China in Kweilin.
Who is Suyuan
This cheapskate husband always wanted to split the bills right down the middle.
Who is Harold
Rose told Ted that she was planning to keep this after their divorce.
What was the house.
Jing-mei feels different as her train leaves the Hong Kong border and enters Shenzhen, China. She feels as if she is becoming something.
What is becoming Chinese
June promised her aunties she would tell this about her mother to her sisters in China.
What is everything
Rose's little brother who drowned in the ocean when she was supposed to be watching him.
Who is Bing
An-mei's mother was which wife to Wu-Tsing
What was the fourth wife
At the end of "Waiting Between Trees," Ying-ying wishes this for her daughter
What was that she would have her own spirit
This is the reason why Waverly wants to "become Chinese" at in Chapter 15
What is because it is fashionable
What Waverly’s mother would say when she attended Waverly’s chess exhibition games outdoors and Waverly won?
What is "is luck" or "she is lucky"
What is that they do not mix
Ying-ying's first husband left her for a girl who did this for a living
What is an opera singer
At the end of Chapter 15, Lindo is wondering two things...what she has lost in coming to America and this.
What is what she has gotten back in return.
These were the two reasons why the women in the club call it Joy Luck
What is because the women hoped to be lucky, and that hope was their only joy
What Rose’s mother meant when she said that Rose was “without wood”
What is being confused all the time because she listened to too many people?
The reason why Jing-mei left her two babies on the side of the road in China
What was thinking that she was going to die and not wanting to die with them
This woman invited An-mei's mother to play a game of mah-jong, but it was really part of an evil plan to have Wu-Tsing rape her.
Who is the second wife.
After the girl next door returned to her apartment and made up with her mother, Lena had this hope
What was that things could always get better than they appeared
Rose uses this Chinese word about Ted to express that he is confused.
What is hulihudu
An-mei's mother killed herself for this reason
What is to kill her own weak spirit in order to give An-mei a strong spirit
An-mei's mother said this about Rose's psychiatrist
What is that he was just another bird drinking from Rose's misery
This message was inside the fortune cookie that Lindo gave to Tin
What was “A house is not home when a spouse is not at home.”
Wu Tsing promised to make up for his wrong doing by doing these things.
What was
1. Honor An-mei's mother as first wife
2. Raise her son and An-mei as his honored children
These four things are what An-mei considered to be raised “the Chinese way”
What is
1. Being taught to desire nothing
2. Swallowing other people’s misery
3. Eating one’s own bitterness
An-mei's mother did this as the ultimate sign of respect for her own mother.
What was cut off a piece of her own flesh, put it in a soup, and feed it to her mother.