Lily Snow Flower

Lily is the main character and the first person relater of her life story. She was born in the early 1823. Having been in China during the 1800s and into the early 1900s, Lily had got the experience of a lot of Chinese history including transformations of many ancient dynasties of China.As the novel begins she is eighty years old. She had been reflecting about a fan that she had acquired from her friend Snow Flower before many years. By the side of the fan's many folds the two women had recorded the important events of their lives in Nu Shu which is a secret written language used and understood only by women during that time. Lily has a best friend named Snow flower who is considered as her "laotong pair" because her relationship with Snow Flower is quite different than the …show more content…
Lily, in spite of belonging to a lower class family had ended up by marrying a man of high power because of her "beautiful feet". She had ended up by marrying one of the most powerful men in the region and becomes "the most influential women in the region". On the other hand unfortunately for Snow Flower, her life did not end up as promising. Snow Flower had ended up by marrying a person of lower class in the society ,her man had turned out to be a butcher. Beside this on the top of her "unhappy marriage" she had gone through a number of most unfortunate events which includes many beatings that had occurred because of her husband and the deaths of many of her children. Due to these happenings every thing had changed in between of them .Lily and Snow Flower's relationship unfortunately did not remain so close for long. Their relationship eventually had taken a turn for the