LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Joy Luck Club , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Waverly thinks that she and her mother were destined to not get along, since their Chinese Zodiac signs make a bad combination. Despite the genetic bond between mother and daughter, there is another complex relationship between predestined personality types in Chinese tradition.
Certain personalities simply do not get along. Active Themes. Mother-Daughter Relationships. Related Quotes with Explanations. However, the plan backfires as Lindo has no reaction, and Waverly gets angry at herself for forfeiting to a weak opponent. It is not so easy anymore. Waverly thinks she can do anything as if life were all a game, but Lindo teaches her about repercussions and sacrifice.
Waverly goes back to playing competitively a few weeks later, but has lost her confidence and is unable to strategize or hide her weaknesses from opponents. Though she continues to play for a few more years, her prodigious gift is gone, and Waverly retires from competition at the age of fourteen.
Lindo represents someone more knowledgeable and stronger-willed than she is. Waverly is horrified by his behavior and has second thoughts about marriage. Finally she engineers a way for Rich to meet her mother. Waverly is furious, and decides to go give her mother a piece of her mind. Her mother is taken aback at this statement, and the two women have a heart to heart. Waverly, Rich, and Lindo plan to visit China together.
Later Waverly voices anxiety about blending in on the trip to China, which Lindo finds laughable. Waverly takes her mother to the beauty parlor, to get her hair cut for the wedding. Rory, the stylist, mentions that Waverly and Lindo look very similar. Topics Character Roles Protagonist, Antagonist Tools of Characterization.
Logging out…. Logging out You've been inactive for a while, logging you out in a few seconds I'm Still Here! W hy's T his F unny? Waverly tries to explain to a friend why she cannot argue with her mother.
She is afraid of her mother's power to destroy things that Waverly once thought were good. She was completely in love with her first husband, until her mother began to tell her little flaws she noticed. Soon, Waverly began to dislike and then grow bored with him. The only thing that remains of their marriage is their daughter Shoshanna , who Waverly at first didn't want but now loves deeply.
She knows that Rich loves her the same way. He is kind and honest and direct, and he makes her feel loved just for being herself. But still, Waverly tries to protect herself and Rich from her mother's critical eye. Finally, she comes up with a plan to get her mother to meet Rich so she will learn how wonderful he is. She takes him to dinner at Suyuan's house, and tells Suyuan that Rich said he had never tasted such good Chinese food.
Waverly knows her mother will not be able to resist the competition, and sure enough, the next day she and Rich receive an invitation to dinner at Lindo's house. Waverly makes Rich promise to tell Lindo that her cooking was better than Suyuan's. But the meal is a disaster. Lindo hates the way Rich looks, and Rich doesn't understand Chinese table manners.
He takes too much food, and does not compliment Lindo the way he is expected to. He doesn't even see how badly the evening went.
Waverly begins to see all the bad things her mother sees in Rich. She realizes she has to do something, so she abruptly goes to her parents' house the next morning. She breathlessly tells her mother about the engagement. Her mother tells her she already knows. When Waverly tries to ask her mother why she hates Rich so much, Lindo denies having any bad feelings toward him.
She says she understands what Waverly is going through: half of her is from her father's side, honest but stingy people, and half from her mother's side, who were great warriors.
Waverly begins to think that they are connecting, but then she gets the name of her mother's birthplace wrong. They both sit silently for a while, but then her mother forgives her and they begin to laugh together. Waverly and Rich postpone the wedding. He and Lindo are becoming friends, and they take her advice but also keep her at a distance.
They are going to China for their honeymoon, and Lindo wants to come along. Waverly partly hates the idea, and partly likes it.
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