a pair of tickets

“A Pair of Tickets” In “A Pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan the main character struggles because she is dealing with feelings of resentment for her mother, because her mother never told her of her older half sisters. She is bothered because she gets a feeling of family that as an American she has never known. This along with the fact that she was never told about her sisters by her now deceased mother makes …

…scare her but she feels that she need to face them in order to get back in touch with her departed mother. Dealing with these feelings is also helping her to get in touch with her Chinese ancestry. She doesn’t feel like she held family as highly as her mother had wanted her to and by getting in touch with them now she is learning about herself and her mother at the same time.