JLC Crossword - Arjun Upadhyayula [D]

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Across
  1. 2. Symbolizes resilience; evoked in descriptions of characters' strength
  2. 3. Ying-ying believes she can read and communicate with these
  3. 4. What all four mothers are in the United States
  4. 6. The lowly position An-mei's mother was forced into
  5. 12. The barrier — literal and emotional — between generations
  6. 14. Where many of the mothers' intimate conversations take place
  7. 17. The object Ying-ying uses to symbolize self-reflection and identity
  8. 19. What the mothers made to give their daughters better lives
  9. 20. Ying-ying's Chinese zodiac sign, symbolizing her fierce spirit
  10. 22. Waverly's childhood talent that made her famous
  11. 26. The chess prodigy daughter of Lindo Jong
  12. 28. The central struggle of the daughters in America
  13. 31. The mother whose own mother was a concubine
  14. 32. Lena's husband who splits finances obsessively
  15. 33. Rose's husband who asks her for a divorce
  16. 34. The bird Suyuan brings from China as a symbol of hope
  17. 37. The primary way mothers and daughters communicate across cultures
  18. 40. An-mei's family carries this after her mother's remarriage
  19. 43. The land the mothers came to, full of promise and disappointment
  20. 44. An-mei's mother wears these as a sign of her degraded status
  21. 45. The powerful man An-mei's mother is forced to marry
  22. 48. The Chinese city where Suyuan first started the Joy Luck Club
Down
  1. 1. A trait Chinese daughters were traditionally expected to show
  2. 5. The title the daughters use to address their mothers' friends
  3. 6. Suyuan's last name, also Jing-mei's last name (Woo)
  4. 7. The homeland all four mothers fled
  5. 8. The American city where the Joy Luck Club meets
  6. 9. The game played at the Joy Luck Club gatherings
  7. 10. The Jong mother known for her willpower and cleverness
  8. 11. What remains of Suyuan's swan after customs takes it
  9. 13. The word in the club's name representing the mothers' wishes
  10. 15. What the mothers impose on their American-born daughters
  11. 16. The Hsu daughter who struggles to assert herself
  12. 18. What Waverly's chess career represents against her mother's control
  13. 21. The term used for non-Chinese people and cultural outsiders
  14. 23. How Ying-ying feels she has become in America
  15. 24. What An-mei's mother sacrifices her own for
  16. 25. The swan feather is meant to carry this across generations
  17. 27. What the mothers try to preserve in America
  18. 29. The younger generation at the heart of the novel
  19. 30. The St. Clair daughter trapped in an unequal marriage
  20. 34. Jing-mei's mother who founded the Joy Luck Club in China
  21. 35. The first word of the club's name, representing what the mothers sought
  22. 36. The daughter who travels to China to meet her half-sisters
  23. 38. Ying-ying St. Clair's first name, meaning "eagle"
  24. 39. The babies Suyuan leaves behind in China during her desperate flight
  25. 41. The tool each mother uses to pass wisdom to her daughter
  26. 42. Waverly's fiancé, whom Jing-mei fears her mother dislikes
  27. 46. Suyuan abandons her twin babies near one during her wartime escape
  28. 47. The social gathering founded by Suyuan in wartime Kweilin