waiting between trees & Double Face

These two stories were quite interesting as they show how the two mothers, YingYing and Lindo describe and their daughters and display their feelings on them. In the first story, YingYing tells of her life before Lena. She tells of how she has not shared her past with her daughter because it was painful and looked down upon. She is ashamed all her previous actions but at the same time wants her daughter to finally know all the pain and disgrace she went through. Ying Ying tells of how she was married to a drunk guy at a very early age because of something to do with a watermelon. She hated him and eventually got pregnant with his son, which she then killed before the baby was born. She told the nurse to throw the child away into the river like a piece of trash because she wanted nothing to do with her husband. This is when she states that she can first predict the future. Late on she tells of hw she runs away from her husband and becomes a sales lady, bitter with her own actions, she sometimes contemplates suicide but does not go through with it and eventually meets St.Clair which she then marries. The next story, Double face is not as bleak as the first but depicts the differences Lindo has with her daughter appearance wise. Waverly is getting married for the second time and is going to china for her honeymoon. She is worried of her mothers appearance and wants to modernize her in a sense. She wants to cut her hair and make her look nice for the wedding. In the end Lindo is totally shocked by her makeover and sees her face as it was so many years ago. It makes her think of her mother and her grandmother and makes a very sentimental tale.