Quotes- Joy Luck Club Flashcards
And because I forgot what I wished for, that memory remained hidden from me all these many years.
Ying Ying `
I say I’m staying and my lawyer will too, once we serve you the papers.
Rose
What will I say? What can I tell them about my mother? I don’t know anything
June/Jing-mei
I was six when my mom taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments…
Waverly
So ungrateful. If she had as much talent as she has temper, she would be famous now.
Suyuan
And I am sitting at my mother’s place at the mah jong table, on the East, where things begin.
June/Jing-mei
This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing.
An-mei
And then with one shout this dark boiling soup spilled forward and fell all over my neck. It was as though everyone’s anger was pouring all over me.
An-mei
Key! Treble! Bass! No sharps or flats! So this is C Major! Listen now and play after me!
Old Chong
She would love to go to China with us. And I would hate it…Yet part of me also thinks that the whole idea makes perfect sense.
Waverly
A girl is like a young tree. You must stand tall and listen to your mother…if you bend and listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. And then you will be like a weed.
An-mei
It’s just not…sophisticated. I’m sure what you write for your other clients is wonderful. But we’re a big firm. We need somebody who understands that…our style.
Waverly
As long as we keep the money thing separate, we’ll always be sure of our love for each other.
Harold
For a long time, I wanted to give you this necklace. See, I wore this on my skin, so that when you put it on your own skin, then you know my meaning. This is your life’s importance.
Suyuan
I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people’s misery, to eat my own bitterness.
An-mei
I hear my daughter speaking to her husband downstairs. They say words that mean nothing. They sit in a room with no life in it. I know a thing before it happens.
Ying Ying
Suyuan Woo
“The Joy Luck Club”
-Passed away…2 months ago
-Married to Canning
-Started first joy luck club in Kweilin, China
-Left her baby twins (girls) and first husband after Japanese invasion
-Told June that “hope was our only joy.”
Jing-mei/June Woo
-Mom is Suyuan
Replaces mom with aunties at the club and at maj jong table
-Aunties raise $1200. June is to go to China and meet her long lost twin sisters and tell them about their mom. June worries—> “What can I tell them about my mother? I don’t know anything.”
-played piano by force taught by old mr chou
An-mei
“Scar”
-her mom leaves when An-mei is a child
-lacks parental figures
-her mom and an-mei are constantly criticized
-hot soup scars her neck
-An-mei’s mom is a concubine
-Lost son
Rose
-Married to Ted
-Lost brother Bing
-can’t make decisions
-Disappointed mom (An-mei)
Lindo Jong
-“The Red Candle”
-smart, crafty, intelligent
-”I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me.”
-Gets jade necklace from her mom.
-Mother-in-law=Huang Taitai. Husband=Tyan-yu (arranged)
Waverly Jong
“Rules of the Game”
Waverly: “I closed my eyes and pondered my next move.”
Waverly=pawn
Mom=queen
-married rich
Ying Ying St Clair
-“The Moon Lady”
-What’s with her name?
-Moon festival when she is 4 “I wished to be found.”
-About her daughter, Lena: “We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.”
Lena St Clair
“The Voice from the Wall”
Lena: “I still saw bad things in my mind, but now I found ways to change them.”
Ying-ying: stillborn, assaulted?
- married harold
