The Joy Luck Club

Lindo Jong – Double Face

Summary
• Lindo jong discusses her daughter
Waverly, who is planning her
wedding and honeymoon to China with
Rich.
• To Lindo, Waverly has expressed her
fear that she will blend in so well
with the Chinese that she won’t be
allowed to return to America.
• Before HER wedding, Waverly takes
Lindo to her fashionable hair
stylist, Mr. Rory.
Summary
• Lindo’s mother told her that she
could read her fortune in her face.
She had told Lindo that she was
fortunate to have a straight nose,
because a girl with a bent nose is
“bound for misfortune . . . always
following the wrong things, the
wrong people, the worst luck.”
• Lindo talks about the difficulties
of keeping one’s “Chinese face” in
America. When she first came to San
Francisco, she worked in a fortune-
Summary
• An-mei introduced her to Tin Jong,
who would become Lindo’s husband.
• While pregnant with Waverly, Lindo
bumped her nose on the bus, making
it crooked.
• In the beauty parlor mirror, Lindo
notices that Waverly’s nose is
crooked like her own, even though
Lindo’s nose is crooked due to an
accident, not her genes.
• She says she thinks it makes them
Settings
• Place:
• Beauty Parlour ( page 145)
• california Street (page 149)
• washington Street (page 149)
• Cookie Factory (page 149)
• Portsmouth Square (page 151)
• First Chinese Baptist Church (152)
Settings
• TIME:
• One day before new year (page 147)
• Before arrived to america (page
147)
• After school (page 151)
Lindo Jong
• Assumptive (page 145)
• Believed in superstitious (page
152)
Waverly Jong
• Easily annoyed (page 145)
• Poor Chinese-language fluency (page
145)
Themes
• Mother-daughter relationship (145)
• Hardship in life (page 149)
Points Of View
• MIXED VOICES
Literary Devices
• Flashback ( page 147)

• Simile (page 149, paragraph 4,

line 6)