ild. Lindo finally saw who her daughter was while sitting in a chair getting ready to have her hair done. She saw how alike the two were, no matter how much her daughter denied their similarities. They had both American and Chinese qualities and were truly connected. Waverly hated her mother for taking credit for her chess triumphs, and after she told her mother how she felt, she never played chess the right way again. She had lost her true talent and decided that her mother did not have her best intentions for her, even though she did. That's all Lindo wanted for her daughter. Their climatic incident was when Lindo commented on the fur jacket Waverly received as a present from Rich. Waverly was so disgusted that her mother would criticize a gift. Lindo just wanted the best for Waverly and did not see how happy Rich made her. However, Lindo found the good in him, and they slowly began to find some common ground.
             An-Mei Hsu and Rose Hsu Jordan resolved their differences after Rose stood up for herself from her husband. An-Mei had no backbone. She did not know how to take care of herself properly and therefore could not take care of Rose the way she needed to be. After Rose lost Bing to the ocean's deep waters, An-Mei was not the same. Although she still had faith that her son was alive, she carried the immense feeling of pain for a lost child. She had tried so hard to protect her children, but she, unfortunately, could not protect them from everything. Like her mother, Rose was not the type of person to speak up for herself. Her relationships with men were bad and the one with her mother even poorer.
             Nevertheless, she finally listened to her mother and spoke up. She had let her husband, Ted, make all the past decisions, but she held strong and would not let him take the house away from her as her mother advised. In this instant, she gained that understanding with her mother. Rose had to stay strong, as her mother and grandmother ha...