A. Jing-Mei (June) Woo. June is rebellious in nature, always swimming against her mothers' dreams for her, not because they were harmful dreams but because she felt she could never live up to them, and she didn't because she thought she couldn't. Her mothers death has brought her face to face with questions about herself, her mother, and both their identities.

B. Suyuan Woo. Like any mother Suyuan wanted her daughter to be the best she could be. She pushed her, to make her proud of herself, to give that one child what the two that were swallowed by her past could not.

A. An-Mei Hsu. She is a strong woman, whose strength came form her mothers sacrifice. She wishes her daughter to be strong as well, to break with the Chinese role of swallowing one's own tears, and sorrows.

B. Rose Hsu Jordan. A character drowned in vacillation, Rose has given her life to a dominating husband, until that husband leaves her. This is when after all the confusion in her heart clears and she finds the strength, the voice her mother intended her to have.

C. Lindo Jong. Lindo is a brave cunning woman who found a way to change her fate, tied to an undesired husb

F. Lena St. Clair. Her blood is half American half Chinese; she embodies what all these young ladies feel. Inside she has fears regarding her mothers' fears. She is malleable, insecure; she bends to others impositions such as her husbands' "half and half" policy.

E. Ying-Yin St. Clair. Ying-Yin is a dismal character. Scared from her first marriage, empty because her spirit, her joy has fled her body. She waits to give her daughter what she's lacked all her life, what she could not give her, a spirit.

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Approximate Word count = 1956
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)