The Joy Luck Club

by

Amy Tan

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Wang Chwun Yu Character Analysis

One of Suyuan’s twin daughters from her first marriage. She is rescued between the cities Kweilin and Chungking in 1944, after Suyuan places her and her twin on a busy road. Suyuan, fearing that she’s dying, believes her daughters will be saved if they seem orphaned. Chwun Yu grows up in China and reunites with her half-sister June at the end of the novel.

Wang Chwun Yu Quotes in The Joy Luck Club

The The Joy Luck Club quotes below are all either spoken by Wang Chwun Yu or refer to Wang Chwun Yu. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Mother-Daughter Relationships Theme Icon
).
A Pair of Tickets Quotes

I look at their faces again and see no trace of my mother in them. Yet they still look familiar. And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood. After all these years, I can finally be let go.

Related Characters: Jing-mei “June” Woo (speaker), Suyuan Woo, Wang Chwun Yu, Wang Chwun Hwa
Page Number: 288
Explanation and Analysis:
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Wang Chwun Yu Quotes in The Joy Luck Club

The The Joy Luck Club quotes below are all either spoken by Wang Chwun Yu or refer to Wang Chwun Yu. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Mother-Daughter Relationships Theme Icon
).
A Pair of Tickets Quotes

I look at their faces again and see no trace of my mother in them. Yet they still look familiar. And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood. After all these years, I can finally be let go.

Related Characters: Jing-mei “June” Woo (speaker), Suyuan Woo, Wang Chwun Yu, Wang Chwun Hwa
Page Number: 288
Explanation and Analysis: