In this chapter we are introduced to the character Jing-mei Woo. She explains how her mother past away a few months ago and she now has to take her place in an organization her mother founded called The Joy Luck Club. She then goes on to explain her mothers past: she was married in China before she met Jing-mei's father and had two children, twins, with this man. When a war started she had to immigrate to America, leaving her daughers behind. At the end of the chapter, the ladies from the Joy Luck Club give Jing-mei money to travel to China and find her half-sisters and tell them of their mother's life.