An employs an intricate and piquant irony to develop these themes. Irony
especially surrounds Lindo. An immigrant, Lindo is a proud repository
of traditional Chinese values, which she nostalgically proclaims as
superior to the values of the United States. One of her tenets is that
strong people should remain silent, a behavioral strategy she inherits
from Sunzi’s classic <em>Sunzi Bingfa</em> (probably 475-221 b.c.e.; <em>Sun Tzu: On the Art of War</em>, 1910); as Lindo indicates in another tale in <em>The Joy Luck Club</em>, her maiden name is Sun. Ironically, however, when Waverly is featured on the cover of <em>Life</em> magazine, Lindo cannot keep silent about her daughter’s prowess and pridefully
I think you answer would be the second answer or B.) A short story normally does not have a complicated plot; a novel can have a complicated plot.
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