The Joy Luck Club ... Lindo is willing to endure a carping, loveless marriage in order to ensure her ... Only when she can escape with honor does she leave the doomed relationship with her husband. ... The girl can offer only feeble excuses. ... she takes off all her gold and thinks about the day that she realized that she could ...
The effect of the underlined section in developing the tone
of this excerpt from "In a Queen's Domain" by Sarah Morgan Bryan
Piatt is it helps to change the tone of the poem from calm and carefree to
sinister and menacing.
