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Chandelier

This is an elaborate light fixture in Dorothy’s apartment. It symbolizes Louis’s vanity and materialistic tendencies and also the weight of misery Dorothy feels in the apartment and her relationship.

White

This is the color worn by mourners when someone dies in China. It symbolizes death and sadness.

Red

This is the color brides wear in China and is the color of Afong’s lotus shoes. It symbolizes hope when Agong makes her shoes, but sadness when she has to wed a man she does not know.

Lychees

This is a fruit that Afong and Yao Han would share. It is also a fruit Greta and Dorothy like. It symbolizes how memory can connect the senses throughout the generations.

Bound Feet

This is what Afong always does to her lower extremities below her ankles. They symbolize the expectations of society and female gender roles in...

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