Lena Ying In The Joy Luck Club
Ying-ying and Lena’s Dark Side
Amy Tan is a Chinese-American and she is the author of the novel The Joy Luck Club. Suyuan Woo, An-Mei Hsu, Lindo Jong and Ying-ying St. Clair are in The Joy Luck Club. The novel is about these four different characters and their relationships with their daughters. Lena and her mother, Ying-ying, are similar in many ways. Both can see what others can’t. Lena explains, “Because even as a young child, I could sense the unspoken terrors that surrounded our house, the ones that chased my mother until she hid in a secret dark corner of her mind. And still they found her. I watched, over the years, as they devoured her, piece by piece, until she disappeared and became a ghost.” Ying-ying married with a bad man when
Amy Tan is a Chinese-American and she is the author of the novel The Joy Luck Club. Suyuan Woo, An-Mei Hsu, Lindo Jong and Ying-ying St. Clair are in The Joy Luck Club. The novel is about these four different characters and their relationships with their daughters. Lena and her mother, Ying-ying, are similar in many ways. Both can see what others can’t. Lena explains, “Because even as a young child, I could sense the unspoken terrors that surrounded our house, the ones that chased my mother until she hid in a secret dark corner of her mind. And still they found her. I watched, over the years, as they devoured her, piece by piece, until she disappeared and became a ghost.” Ying-ying married with a bad man when