Madame liang
Madame liangMadame Liang essay
In the book Three Daughters of Madame Liang there is a big emphasis on art. Art played a big role in the liver of the four main women in the novel. Joy, Madame Liang, Mercy, and Grace without art these four women's lives would have been drastically changed.
You may believe that the Liang family is not perceived as an "artsy" or artistic family, but in fact they are really a very "artsy" or artistic family. They have Joy the painter, Madame Liang "the woman with style", Mercy the musician, and Grace the concert pianist. Joy, whom is a contemporary painter, lives in the United States of America and stays here. Joy is the only daughter not to go back to china. This is due to her husband Hsuan Teng. Hsuan Teng influences Joy in not to go back to china. He is discouraged to go back to china because they then will be forced to work on farms, and not permitted to express their feelings in art. Hsuan is a well renowned artist and is almost a famous as Pablo Picaso.
" 'You are an artist?' he asked. (He is Hsuan Teng)
'How did you Know?' she replied. (She is Joy)
'Paint under your nails,' he said."
She makes a profession out of painting, and Joy uses many Chinese colors in all of her paintings. Madame Liang perhaps one of the most artistic women in this novel. Madame Liang has art because she has style. Madame Liang has style in many ways. Just to name a two, managing an elaborate restaurant, and she wears only the best. "She turned restlessly in the huge bed. The down quilts were light, the sheets were of white silk, but she was sleepless. Moonlight shone against the windows for behind the curtains the moon was full." This quotation talks of her elegant fabrics used in her bed. "… Madame Liang, who managed, no one knew how, to keep open a restaurant whose daily menu carried the finest gourmet foods" and "'Three hundred dollars and fifty-five small coins,' Chou ma announced." I can conclude that one: Madame Liang owns a gourmet food restaurant and is very profitable. The restaurant is located in Shanghai where Madame Liang lives and dies. From all of the quotations they prove that Madame Liang is artistic.
Mercy is a music...
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