The Kitchen God’s Wife (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Revised Third Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Amy Tan
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1921-1990
- Setting: China and San Francisco, California
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Family literature
- Subjects: Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Prisoners, Abused persons, Twentieth century, Marriage, Abandoned children, Domestic violence, Rape, Ministry or ministers, Immigration or emigration, War, Multiculturalism, Divorce, Remarriage, Abandonment, China or Chinese people, Chinese Americans, Women’s rights, Multiple sclerosis
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, China
Characters Discussed
Winnie Louie, or Jiang Weiwei, the protagonist and principal narrator, the daughter of a wealthy Shanghai cloth merchant and his second wife. Her mother abandons her when she is six years old. Winnie leaves her home to live on Tsunming Island for almost twelve years with her paternal uncle’s family. After an arranged marriage to a young man named Wen Fu, she and her pilot-husband at first move ahead of the advancing Japanese army and then live for seven years in Kunming. Unhappy with her brutal treatment by a cruel, self- centered man, Winnie runs away,...
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