Marriage is always not a key point in Amy Tan’s book. We cannot find a clear
relationship between leading roles and their husband or boyfriend. However, we can
find out that men can sometimes be a torture for women, and sometime they are
solace of spirit for women, although men are always subordinate roles.
Nevertheless,
in “The Bonesetter’s Daughter”, it is easy to discover that mother give a big influence
of marriage to daughter.
First, here is some perspective of marriage of three leading roles, Precious Auntie,
LuLing, and Ruth.
First of all, Precious Auntie grew up in conservative society, but
her father let her do whatever a son might do, due to the family tragedies.
Therefore,
she didn’t be like traditional women who only follow parents’ choice of husband, and
she was brave to choose her own husband by herself.
For example, after the
coffinmaker knew that Precious Auntie was going to marry, he was so angry, so he
went back to the Mouth of the Mountain.
When he saw Precious Auntie, he said”
You think you can insult me, then walk away laughing?” And then, she replied
“Who insulted whom? You asked me to be your concubine, a servant to your wife.
I’m not interested in being a slave in a feudal marriage.”
From this, it is clearly to
know that Precious Auntie had her own thinking about marriage. Second, LuLing
always thought that she was cursed since Precious Auntie suicided, so she always
worry about that she deserved to be happy.
For instance, LuLing married to Kai Jing,
and when they poured tea for her as well and lighted the incense, suddenly LuLing
had a feeling that a cold breath poured down my neck. And then she started thinking
about the ancestor’s bones and the curse.
easy to associate with curse in thinking.
It was a usual situation, but LuLing was