Across
- 1. Object tied to memory and mourning
- 2. Motherland symbolizing lost heritage and connection
- 5. Repeated act by mothers for their daughters' futures
- 8. Rose’s husband who decides their divorce terms without her
- 9. Learns to swallow tears after her mother's sacrifices
- 11. Woman who lost herself and now wants to help her daughter find hers
- 15. Group formed to find hope during wartime and hardship
- 17. Movement shaping all mothers’ lives and hopes
- 20. A virtue taught in China but questioned in America
- 21. Chess prodigy daughter of Lindo Jong
- 23. Situation faced by several mothers in youth
- 26. Color motif symbolizing luck, passion, and fate
- 27. Clever mother who faked her own dishonor to escape marriage
- 28. American name of Jing-Mei
- 29. Lena's husband who splits expenses down to the penny
Down
- 1. Main setting where the Joy Luck Club meets
- 3. Daughter of Ying-Ying, trapped in an unequal marriage
- 4. A symbol for hidden strength and fierceness
- 6. Conflict between generations and worlds
- 7. Game the mothers play to bond and tell stories
- 10. Symbol of family bonds and memory
- 12. Central theme: struggle between Chinese and American self
- 13. Founding mother of the Joy Luck Club
- 14. Motif showing split identity and deception
- 16. Jing-Mei's half-sisters left behind in China
- 18. Central source of misunderstanding and pain
- 19. Narrator who travels to China to meet her half-sisters
- 22. Position of power but also resentment in Chinese culture
- 24. Emotional daughter who struggles in her marriage
- 25. Motif representing memory, trauma, or things left unsaid