Rice Husband- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan: foreshadowing

In this chapter, Lena St. Clair is the narrator. Lena foreshadows what will happen between her and her husband at the beginning of the chapter. Her mother also foreshadows that a bad man will come into her life. Lena and her husband, Harold, begin having trouble with equality issues. These issues then escalate to financial issues. Lena's mother comes to visit and quickly realizes something is wrong. "He wouldn't hear of taking any money from me, not as a favor, not as a loan, not as an investment, or even as the down payment on a partnership. He said he valued our relationship too much. He didn't want to contaminate it with money" (Tan 157). Lena and Harold are a lot like couples in today's society. There always seems to be a money issure involved one way or another.