The conflict in this chapter is mostly internal because you are often in Waverly’s thoughts. How she felt embarrassed and humiliated by her mother at the age of ten. And how after even though she has grown, she still feels that her mother just doesn’t get it. When Waverly was so angry about how her mother had made her see Rich as a pathetic man, she thinks, “I had to tell my mother – that I knew what she was doing, her scheming ways of making me miserable (199).” The struggle resides within Waverly, she doesn’t know how to tell her mother that she is going to marry a man, who is opposite of their culture. She knows that her mother will disapprove and she fears it. But, in the end, she sees that her mother has aged and only wishes also to be
