An-Mei’s mother, who has no value, “no face”, no name, for she has no identity of her own, inaugurates her journey when she departs into Wu Tsing’s mansion as a fourth wife, the lowest position in his household (46). She was tricked into becoming the fourth wife of Wu Tsing. Wu Tsing’s wives could not bear him a son and he became impatient, so treacherous Second Wife arranged An-Mei’s mother to become Wu Tsing’s third concubine and fourth wife. Wu Tsing raped An-Mei’s mother, and she was viewed as a traitor to her husband by her family. Her family disowned her and banned her from the family house.
Then when she gave birth to her twins sons, she acted as if she did not want them and I believe that Cathy was selfish was because she shot her husband in the shoulder. Also Faye left all of her earnings and possessions, including the brothel to Cathy in her will. So in order to take advantage of Faye Cathy poisoned her until she died. I do not think this was right of Cathy because Faye truly seemed to care about her. If I had the opportunity to meet Catherine Amesbury or Cathy Ames I would not take it.
Marian said she felt fortunate to have found refuge. On the other hand, Nadia was 17 years old, her husband cut off her nose and ear while she was sleeping, she has undergone six operations and need more. Nadia said "I don't know anything about happiness". Another girl Gulsum, was kidnapped by her father, who was estranged from her mother, was forced to marry the son of her father's lover. Her husband and her mother- in- law beat her and threatened to kill
The story is about a young girl called Adeline Yen Mah who has a hard life. Her mother died while giving birth to her so she is considered an unlucky child. She is always treated unequally to her six other siblings. After her mother died her father married a woman called Niag. When the family moved to Shanghai to live with her the children found out that she was an evil wicked stepmother.
When Ji-Li Jiang was 12, kids attacked her with retorts, her family were humiliated, and finds out she was born in a landlord family. Because of the detention of her father, Ji-Li Jiang had to make the most dreadful decision in her life; break with her family, follow Chairman Mao or follow her landlord parents and have a bad future. Read the book to find more. Afterwards, Ji-li-Jiang graduated from Shanghai University and from Shanghai Teacher's College (this happened when the Cultural Revolution was finished and Chairman Mao was already dead) and became a science teacher. She came to the United States in 1984 and graduated again from the University of Hawaii.
The final step is the return back to the interpreted realm, bringing back the transformation of consciousness. In the novel The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, An-mei’s mother suffers of rape, immediately causing herself to depart into a cruel world without her daughter, social acceptance, and a place to live. Forced to eventually care for An-mei as a fourth wife, An-mei’s mother realizes the poor conditions An-mei is set to grow up in, and kills herself to rid herself of her own weak spirit to make An-mei’s stronger. This action shocks Wu Tsing, into raising An-mei as if she were from his first wife, thus making An-mei a bold and confident child. Through challenges and trials that An-mei’s mother overcome for her daughter, she is granted with the qualities of a full-fledged hero from Campbell’s perspective.
However, she is unhappy with this marriage and begins to have an affair with the local doctor, Le Roi Goddard Crandon. Crandon wants Margery to leave her husband and be with him, "Get rid of the grocer's deliveryman. Think about being a doctor's wife and then make an appointment with my nurse" (Scene 1 page 14 ). Margery wants a different life then what she is living and decides to divorce her husband. She marries Crandon soon after and her future then becomes unclear.
What are your first impressions of Blanche and Stanley? Support your ideas with close reference to the text. In the first scene we see that Blanche is already a fallen woman in society’s eyes. Her family fortune and estate are gone, she lost her young husband to suicide years earlier, and she is a social exile due to her indiscrete sexual behavior. She also has a bad drinking problem, which she covers up poorly.
The first chapter, ‘No Name Woman’, talks about the author’s adulterous aunt who commits suicide with her illegitimate child. Kingston imagines what life might have been like for this unnamed aunt and the different reasons why the villagers would act like they did. She makes up situations that her aunt could have faced. These fantasies match Kingston’s stepping out of her prescribed role in Chinese-American society and her mother’s expectations. The quote “You must not tell anyone, what I am about to tell you.” (pg.
Secondly, the main character had three mothers that happened to be sisters. One of them became pregnant before marriage and in order to hide the identity of the one that was pregnant, the other two mimicked the symptoms of pregnancy so it was impossible to tell which one was the real mother. The mothers had to live with the shame that came from themselves and the people of their village. Lastly, Sufiya Zinobia Hyder, the women that married Omar, felt shame all of her life. Sufiya’s father did not want a daughter, he was ashamed of her.