The Voice from the Wall- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan: narrator

In this chapter, Lena St. Clair is the narrator. Lena speaks of terrible stories her mother had told her. She speaks of the girl next door who is "killed" night after night by her own mother. Lena speaks of her mother's obsession with Chinese balance throughout their San Francisco apartment. She speaks of her mother's craziness with it came to the baby. Lena noticed her mother bumping into tables as if there wasn't a baby in her stomach. When the baby came out of her mother's womb dead, it was no surprise to Lena. At the hospital, Lena says, "I could not tell my father what she had said. He was so sad already with this empty crib in his mind. How could I tell him she was crazy" (Tan 112)? I can relate this to everyday life because many people protect their loves ones from the truth. Many of us often lie to keep those close to us from getting hurt.