New Year for Fong Wing (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Monfoon Leong
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1946
- Setting: San Francisco
- Principal Characters: Fong Wing, Lee Mun, The gambling house operator
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Gambling, 1940’s, World War II, California, West, U.S., War, World War I, San Francisco, Pacific Northwest, Asian Americans, China or Chinese people, Chinese Americans
- Locales: San Francisco, CA
The Story
It is the early morning of New Year's Day. After they close the restaurant, Fong Wing and Lee Mun collect their pay and leave. Lee Mun wants to go to the House of Ten-Thousand Delights, a gambling house, to celebrate New Year's, but Fong Wing fears that if he loses all of his money, his wife will be mad at him.
On the way to a Chinese grocery store, Fong Wing has a sad feeling. The streets littered with shattered red paper—the remains of thousands of exploded firecrackers—look as empty as his life. He and Lee Mun start to talk about children. Fong Wing had...
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