W/W and Best Qualities.

The major theme of each of these two stories I guess would be the daughter discovering something amazing, and learning a life lesson about themselves, and also realizing something about their mothers. The mother/daughter relationships are evolving to a new level from where they were before. In “Without Wood” Rose admits that her mother was right when she said that Rose shouldn’t marry that person that she did. In “Best Qualities” Jing-Mei thinks that her mother doesn’t think much of her and she becomes a little depressed because of it. But as it turns out her mother is just stating the truth. In my opinion I think the relationships between the mothers and the daughters are getting better slowly, because it’s a long and very tedious process. I actually like the stories very much because of how it usually plays out and ends with one big soul crushing revelation. Overall the book is very good. The reason I like it is because of the insight it gives into Chinese culture. It really interests me as to how the Chinese culture and belief system works. All in all I really do like the book very much. It captivates me.