By the end of the book, she realizes that she never should have done this: it has made her daughter weak as well. Clair without really caring about him-she says she could not care about anyone, because she has turned herself into a ghost. She sees herself as still strong on the inside, but knows that she has willingly given up her strength so she will no longer cause herself such pain. From then on, she believed that she could see things before they happened, and she gives this power to her daughter Lena. Because she thought she was too good for any man, she was forced to marry a bad man. Clair: Though she was born a rich and spoiled girl, Ying-ying ends up relatively poor and meek. She is competitive and intimidating, even to her daughter and husband. She received enough money from her in-laws to come to America. Lindo, like Suyuan, had a hard life in China-she was forced to marry a man she hated-but she used her cleverness to escape her fate. She gets upset when Waverly decides to marry a white man, but when he refuses to be intimidated by her, she accepts him. Lindo has always tried to take credit for Waverly's success, and because she feels close to her daughter, she tries to control her life. Lindo's best friend is Suyuan, but they fight constantly. Lindo Jong: Mother of Waverly, Vincent, and Winston. Her husband and American daughter fulfill her greatest wish-finding her Chinese daughters-to try to bring her a kind of peace she could not have when she was alive. But she cared for her family, and the Joy Luck Club, so everyone misses her when she dies. She was at times a difficult mother for Jing-mei, and she was competitive and bullying to some of her friends. Though she married Canning in China and moved to California, she never forgot those babies, and spent her life trying to find them. Suyuan had a troubled past-she gave up her twin daughters when they were babies and lost her first husband in the war. Wife of Canning Woo and, previously, Wang Fuchi. Suyuan Woo: Mother of Jing-mei, Wang Chwun Yu and Wang Chwun Hwa. She also begins to see that though they often fought and rarely saw eye to eye, her mother did love her and understood her, at times, even better than she understood herself. When she finally meets her mother's other daughters in China, she feels like she has her mother back. After her mother's death, she begins to see that her mother's history is part of her, and China is part of her identity. She does not speak Chinese fluently, and she tried to reject Chinese culture and even, for a while, believed that she was not Chinese at all. She never knew the whole story of her mother's previous life in China. She never understood why her mother was never satisfied with her. Jing-mei always had a troubled relationship with her mother, so when Suyuan dies, she has to deal with her grief, frustration, and her many questions. Jing-mei (June) Woo: Daughter of Suyuan and Canning Woo.
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