Dec 20, 2009

Rules of the Game | Style

Point of View
As with the other stories in The Joy Luck Club, ‘‘Rules of the Game’’ is narrated from the perspective of one of the main characters. In this case, Waverly Jong gives her point of view about the part of her childhood where she became a chess champion. Waverly narrates the story from her childhood perspective, and does not refer to anything that happened to her as an adult as a result of the events in the story, or give her adult perspective about the events—as some adult narrators do when talking about their childhoods.

Waverly recalls...