Rules of the Game (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Amy Tan
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1950's and 1960's
- Setting: San Francisco
- Principal Characters: Waverly Place Jong, Lindo Jong
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Girls, 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, California, West, U.S., San Francisco, Pacific Northwest, China or Chinese people, Chinese Americans, Chess or chess players
- Locales: San Francisco, CA
The Story
Waverly Place Jong is a chess prodigy living in San Francisco's Chinatown with her Chinese immigrant parents. She is named after “Waverly Place,” her family's address and, therefore, their claim to the United States. Waverly is diminutively nicknamed as “Meimei” (Chinese for “little sister”), whereas her two brothers have resonant, victorious names—Winston and Vincent.
Waverly and her mother, Lindo Jong, have an ongoing psychological battle, each surreptitiously trying to gain the upper hand. Although Waverly was born in the United States, her...
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