The Joy Luck Club Chapter Summary & Analysis - Part 4, Lindo Jong, "Double Face" Summary

Part 4, Lindo Jong, "Double Face" Summary

Waverly and her husband want to go to China for their second honeymoon. She is afraid she will look and sound too Chinese, even though she does not look or talk Chinese. Lindo regrets raising Waverly to be so American. Waverly takes her mother to the beauty parlor she uses, and her famous Mr. Rory, before the wedding. The hair cutter does not know Lindo speaks English and gets Waverly to speak for her mother. Waverly speaks loudly to her mother as if she is hard of hearing. Mr. Rory puts the two side by side so they can see themselves in the mirror. Lindo tells Waverly she can see her future in the mirror as she sees herself and her own mother, back in China, when she was a girl. When she was in China, Lindo's mother told Lindo her fortune based on the shape of her head. That...
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