Symbolism In Amy Tan's Spring Rain

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she sees a landscape filled with grey of winter. Worth to be noted that she approaches her twin sister. The older one is named Chwun Yu, which means Spring Rain. The Spring Rain then followed with the second child named Chwun Hwa, means Spring Flower. However Jing Mei’s name means “the younger sister who was supposed to tbe the essence of the others” (Tan 190). In the end, Jing Mei and her twin sisters enters a new life as she claims:
The quote indicates that she finally embraces her identity as Chinese after all the doubts she brought with. Jing Mei has gone through the fall and winter which is the difficult times, and then she will blossom into spring where she begin her new life as Chinese. The journey from America to China symbolizes

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