| 1 | * Lindo Jong tricking her superstitious mother-in-law into believing that her arranged marriage with her son was angering their ancestors, thus allowing her to leave it without dishonoring the promise she made to her parents. |
| 2 | ** She also improved a pregnant servant woman's life, and the servant woman now had honor for her child AND a serious jump up in status. |
| 3 | * An-Mei's mother timing her suicide to fall two days before the Chinese New Year, knowing that Wu Tsing would not want to deal with her vengeful spirit (folklore states that a dead person's spirit returns the third day after he or she dies to settle scores), especially not on such a holy day, and he would treat her children well. |
| 4 | ** In the film adaptation, An-Mei declares that now she has power over the household. At the funeral, she grabs the hand of her younger half-brother, whom Second Wife stole away from An-Mei's mother, and shouts at Wu Tsing and Second Wife--who looks absolutely ''terrified'' of An-Mei and probably even more so of An-Mei's mother's ghost, knowing that she'll be facing retribution for her poor treatment of An-Mei's mother. |
| 5 | --> ''And on that day, Second Wife's hair began to turn white. And on that day, I learned to shout.'' |
| 6 | * The ending of the Magpies story. An-Mei is told a tale about a turtle who must swallow its tears because the magpies will simply feed on the tears and laugh at its misery. However, in the wake of An-Mei's mother's suicide, An-Mei thinks of the ending where the grief of the impoverished and unfortunate becomes so great that they kill the magpies by forcing them to keep flying until they die of exhaustion. |
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