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Can you help me with Amy Tan "Half and Half from The Joy Luck Club" story with the questions below?

What do you think is the main conflict for the main character of the story?
How does the character resolve the conflict?
How does the character's ethnic background influence her decisions?

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Amy Tan's short story about Chinese values in family, including main characters and conflict, is surmised.

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The main character here is Rose Hsu Jordan. Her main conflict, while it may seem that it is the impending divorce, is still that of forging identity. For example, notice that she and her mother both adopted Christian faith in an attempt to be ...

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