The Changes in Jing-Mei In the short story, “A Pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan, the author shows us the biggest change in the main character Jing-Mei when she goes to China with her dad to meet her half -sisters. This is the most significant change in the author’s main character as well as the setting. This change is when Jing-Mei goes from not accepting her Chinese heritage and culture to in the end accepting that she is Chinese. At the beginning of the short story, Jing-Mei has a hard time believing that she is Chinese. In the beginning, we find that her mother is trying to convince her that she is, in fact, Chinese, “when I was fifteen and had vigorously denied that I had any Chinese whatsoever below my skin… ‘Someday
