【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 mei moves out to live with her mother in the home of her mother39。s new husband, WuTsing. AnMei learns that her mother was coerced into being WuTsing39。s concubine through the manipulations of his Second Wife, the favorite. This woman arranged for AnMei39。s mother, still in mourning for her original husband, to be raped by WuTsing. The stigma left AnMei39。s mother with no choice but to marry WuTsing and bee his new but lowly Fourth Wife. She later lost her baby son to Second Wife, who claimed the boy as her own child to ensure her place in the household. Second Wife also tried to win over Anmei upon her arrival in WuTsing39。s mansion, giving her a necklace made of pearls that her mother later revealed were actually glass beads by crushing one with her teacup. AnMei39。s mother reknots the necklace to hide the missing bead, but now AnMei knows the truth about Second Wife39。s seeming generosity. WuTsing is a highly superstitious man, and Second Wife took advantage of this weakness by making false suicide attempts and threatening to haunt him as a ghost if he did not let her have her way. According to Chinese tradition, a person39。s soul es back after three days to settle scores with the living. WuTsing, therefore, is known to be afraid to face the ghost of an angry or scorned wife. After Second Wife faked a suicide attempt to prevent AnMei and her mother from getting their own small house, AnMei39。s mother successfully mitted suicide herself, eating tangyuan laced with lethal amounts of opium. She timed her death so that her soul would be due to return on the first day of the new year, a day when all debts must be settled lest the debtor suffer great misfortune. With this in mind, WuTsing promised to treat his Fourth Wife39。s children, including AnMei, as if they were his very own flesh and blood by an honored First Wife. When Second Wife attempted to disrupt this, AnMei crushed the fake pearl necklace Second Wife gave beneath her feet to show her awareness of all the deception and to symbolize her new power over Second Wife, who now fears and realizes the bad karma she brought upon herself. AnMei later immigrates to America, marries, and gives birth to seven children (four sons, three daughters). The youngest, a son named Bing, drowns at age four. Lindo Jong Lindo is a strongwilled woman, a trait that her daughter Waverly attributes to her having been born in the year of the Horse. When Lindo was only twelve, she was forced to move in with a neighbor39。s young son, Huang Tyanyu, through the machinations of the village matchmaker. After some training for household duties through her inlaws, she and Tyanyu married when she turned sixteen. She soon realized that her husband was just a little boy at heart and had no sexual interest in her. Lindo began to care for her husband as a brother, but her cruel motherinlaw expected Lindo to produce a grandson. She restricted most of Lindo39。s daily activities, eventually ordering her to remain on bed rest until she could conceive and deliver a child. Determined to escape this unfortunate situation, Lindo carefully observed the other people in the household and eventually formed a clever plan to escape her marriage without dishonoring herself or her family. She managed to trick her young husband39。s family that he was actually fated to marry another girl who was already pregnant with his spiritual child, and that her marriage to Huang Tyan Yu would only bring bad luck to the family. In reality, the girl in question was a mere servant in the household and indeed pregnant, but abandoned by her lover. Freed of her first marriage, Lindo decided to emigrate to America. She married a ChineseAmerican man named Tin Jong and has three children: sons Winston and Vincent, and daughter Waverly. Lindo experiences regret over losing some of her Chinese identity by living so long in America (she is treated like a tourist on a visit to China), however she expresses concern that Waverly39。s American upbringing has caused a barrier between them. YingYing Betty St. Clair From a young age, YingYing is told by her wealthy and conservative family that Chinese girls should be meek and gentle. This is especially difficult for her, she feels, because she is a Tiger character. She begins to develop a passive personality and repress her feelings as she grows up in Wuxi. YingYing marries a charismatic man named Lin Xiao, not out of love, but because she believed it was her fate. Her husband is revealed to be abusive and openly has extramarital relationships with other women. When YingYing discovers she is pregnant, she gets an abortion and makes the decision to live with her relatives in a smaller city in China. After ten years, she moves to Shanghai and works in a clothing store, where she meets an American man named Clifford St. Clair. He falls in love with her, but YingYing cannot express any strong emotion after her first marriage. He courts her for four years before she agrees to marry him after learning that Lin Xiao had died, which she takes as the proper sign to move on. She allows Clifford to control most aspects of her life, mistranslating her words and actions, and even changing her name to Betty. YingYing gives birth to her daughter, Lena, after moving to San Francisco with St. Clair. When Lena is around ten years old, YingYing bees pregnant a third time, but the baby boy is anencephalic and soon dies. YingYing is horrified when she realizes that Lena, a Tiger like herself, has inherited or emulated her passive behaviors and trapped herself in a loveless marriage with a controlling husband. She finally resolves to call upon the more assertive qualities of her Tiger nature, to appeal to those qualities in Lena. She will tell Lena her story in the hope that she will be able to break free from the same passivity that ruined most of her young life back in China. 喜福會》中母愛主題的文化闡釋AbstractThe Joy Luck Club is written by