Character Sketch on Lindo Jong, from "The Joy Luck Club"

The Key to understanding Lindo Jong is that she is a very strong and imaginative woman. She thought up a lie to get her out of her arranged marriage as a child, while still honouring her mother and father's intentions for her. However, aside from Lindo's creative and fun personality, she is also very proud and narrow minded.
Lindo Jong was brought up as a Mandarin Chinese woman. As being so, she followed her parent's plans and tried to be more and more like her mother. Lindo was arranged to be married when she was just 13 years old. Lindo's parents told her not to shame them and to be an obedient wife and daughter-in-law to her future family. Out of great respect for her parents, Lindo did as she was told and tried her best to fit into her new family. However, she did not love her husband, nor like living with him and his parents.…