... to the House of Hwang located within the town. It is an elegant Chinese mansion with carved furniture and screens, courtyard after courtyard planted with flowering trees, and a goldfish or lily pond in its center. III. Conflict & Denouement Conflict As Wang Lung prospers and his life becomes complicated with family relationships, Wang increasingly longs for peace in his household but never ... ...
... the Christmas dance held at the home of the Misses Morkan: his aunts, Kate and Julia, and their niece, Mary Jane. A cheerful chaos reigns at the old women's house, with Lily, the caretaker's daughter, scampering about, and Gabriel's aunts worrying whether Freddy Malins will turn up drunk. A piano plays in a parlor full of dancing couples. Gabriel tells his aunts that on ... ...
... , "five generations under one roof, all women, in an unbroken sequence, starting with her and descending down to Angelite [Emily's daughter]. From coffee, to cocoa, to cream, to milk, to lily. A conscious and not-so-conscious bleaching of the line" (296). The conscious bleaching of the line is referring to the white fathers these women had, and the not-so-conscious ... ...
