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In “The Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan, the reader learns that one should never underestimate anyone. In the story, Waverly’s mother tries to teach her lessons about power, “invisible wind”, meaning strategies to get what you want and win games that are not only chess. But Waverly misinterprets her mother’s guidance as showing off and bragging about her chess abilities, and she and her mother have an argument in which Waverly’s internal and external conflicts develop. Waverly is externally angry at her mother, but she is internally planning her next battle with her, and she feels like her mother is attacking her. At the end, Waverly feels like her mother is displaying her to other people like a prize she is proud of winning. Waverly says
In “The Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan, the reader learns that one should never underestimate anyone. In the story, Waverly’s mother tries to teach her lessons about power, “invisible wind”, meaning strategies to get what you want and win games that are not only chess. But Waverly misinterprets her mother’s guidance as showing off and bragging about her chess abilities, and she and her mother have an argument in which Waverly’s internal and external conflicts develop. Waverly is externally angry at her mother, but she is internally planning her next battle with her, and she feels like her mother is attacking her. At the end, Waverly feels like her mother is displaying her to other people like a prize she is proud of winning. Waverly says