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character analysis
waverly has thick black hair, pale skin, and features that make her apear more american than members of her family.
she wears dresses adorned with lace and ribbon, usually paired with freshly polished shoes.
waverly was raised in a traditional chinese houshold. she was taught many things that led her down her life patth.
she spent a lot of time outside, running around with her friends or brothers
her mother put a lot of pressure on her shoulders to be a prodigy, and wasted no time trying to make it happen.
waverly grew up in sanfrancisco's chinatown, On a street called waverly place. she lived with her family in a 2 bedroom flat above a bakery.
she started playing chess with her brothers after they accepted her deal to switch the pawns for lifesavers. she became exeptionally skilled at the game and fullfilled her moms goal.
her mother taught her many things during her childhood that would stick with her for the rest of her life, and would aid in her success at chess games.
she cares deeply about critisism, making her appear chronically anxious. when she put off telling her mom about her marrige to rich, these traits came out to play. she feared her mothers response and was to anxious to reveal the truth.
she also overanalyzes and spends too much time thinking of the past, making it so she feels things much more deeply than others. the most obvious instance being where she admits "my mother knows how to hit a nerve. and the pain that i feel is worse than any other kind of misery. what she does always comes as a shock, an electric jolt that grounds itself permanately in my memory."
waverly has a rocky relationship with her mother. Her mother lives through her and often takes credit for her daughters sucess as if she wants it for herself. shes critical about waverlys appearance, quick to point out if she doesnt approve of something; the same way she does with waverlys life choices.
her mother claims shes "sensitive with tendencies towards being thin-skinned and skittery at the first sign of critisism."
waverly is married to rich schields; a tax attourney. he is not chinese and a few years younger than his wife; with red curly hair and freckles.
rich adores waverly and his love for her is unequivical. He never expects anything from her. she had never known a love so pure and feared that it would become sullied by her mother.
when waverly was pregnant with her daughter, soshana, she considered an abortion. she reffered to the pregnancy as her "growing resentment".
luckily, soshana made it to birth and waverly came to love her more than she ever thought possible. she would spend hours analyzing her daughters perfect features. her feelings toward soshana were invioable and she considered her a miracle.
because waverly speaks so much about the hurt derived from her mothers judgements, its clear that she seeks approval from her, probably more from her than anyone else.
i think shes spent alot of time overcompensating for the times she was overlooked by pushing herself to the end of her rope with chess. she recalled feeling invisible during her childhood which i think left her with an internal lonliness.
its quite clear that shes motivated by her need to win. in chess tournaments she wanted to be nothing less than the best of the best.
she hates losing as a result, and takes it personally when shes unable to get set out for.
under it all, shes doing all of this to prove that shes capable of more, and shes worth something.
waverlys conflict is internal. she wars with herself on whether to let peoples words guide her, or whether to let it go and be her own person. throughout the book she teeters on the edge of happiness; unable to grasp it.
waverly enters a pivoting point after a dinner with her parents and her husband. she realizes that letting fear dictate her is not only affecting her, but also those she loves. she comes clean to her mother, only to learn that her mothers motives wer not as she thought. Her mother never thought anything was wrong with what she was saying because it was the truth. She didnt hate rich, and didnt think bad of waverly.
After, she finally lets go of the past and is able to grasp on to that happiness that has always been just an inch out of reach.