Tigress

2. Waiting Between the Trees

3. I thought it was amazing how Ying-Ying transformed over the years. She was conceited, wild, and spunk, but beautiful nevertheless. She was a reckless and vicious tiger. After she falls in love with her husband, she changed completely. She is no longer reckless and independent; she becomes docile and eager to please him. I thought this was an awful transformation. Ying-ying, being so strong and did not need a man to make her happy, cried when he read her a cheesy poem and was overjoyed when she was able to please him. After he leaves her, she readopts her vicious and scheming tiger nature. She killed his son and proceeded to using Clifford St.Clair as a tool to get her out of China. She had no feelings for him and only thought of him as a tool that she’ll use to help herself. I was happy that he changed back to being strong, but I felt bad for Clifford, who was merely a tool.

4. The relationship between Ying-Ying and Lena is a strange one. Lena is completely unaware of what her mother is like. Lena doesn’t know about what her mother has been through, or why she’s gong crazy. She doesn’t understand that her mother is a tiger; she is strong and vicious. Lena is completely unaware because her mother is behind the trees, stalking her, and waiting for the right moment to strike.

5. The word choice in this chapter was excellent. Tan uses words such as, “wild”, “stubborn”, and “smirk”. These words helped show that when Ying-Ying was younger, she was quite the brat. Words such as “stroked” and “held”, helped show that Ying-Ying’s husband had strong feelings of affection for her. These specific words helped me truly feel and see exactly what Ying-Ying was going through

6. I think the conflict in this chapter is mostly internal, within Ying-Ying. She starts off completely normal, without a care in the world. Then, as time goes on, she is affected by traumatic events, such as her husband leaving her, and morphs into a crazed woman. Her tigress nature helped fuel this conflict because if she were more docile, she wouldn’t have gone crazy knowing that a man had left her. She never resolves in conflict in herself because she ends up becoming a “ghost”.