The first story of the first part of the Joy Luck Club talks about Suyuan Woo telling her daughter theses stories. Every time Suayan tells her daughter the same story, but every time it has a different ending. The daughter states that each time the ending of the story appears to get darker and darker.
At first the story is very positive. Shiyuan Woo brags about how good she is at majjong. Every time she would win yuan which is the paper currency of China, but paper was not worth a lot back in the day. So she just used the money to buy simple items such as rice, chickens, and eggs.
As the stories began to change, more and more weird twists and details. One day Shiyuan Woo decides to tell her daughter the truth that she had been holding on to for so long. Shiyuan Woo had to leave the city where she was living at because a friend had warned about a Japanese invasion on the city. She gathered all of her belongings including her two babies and began her long walk away from the city. During the walk one of her friends persuaded a man to steal a wheelbarrow so she could put her stuff on it, but it did not really help that much. Eventually, Shiyun Woo could no longer take it, she was tired and she had no choice but to leave her belongings behind, including her two babies.
I believe that the reason why Shiyuan keeps changing up the story is because she feels ashamed and regrets what she did. She attempts to hide this by changing her story, but she could no longer hide nor deny it. She just had to let it out to her daughter in hope that she would learn a lesson. That lesson would be to never give up and quit. I think she wonders about how her two babies ended up and how they are doing now. She thinks of the possibility of a reunion, but it will not ever happen.
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