As a different person to others in the United States, James was hurt in both workplace and family. James never had any friends in his life due to his race, even though he really yearned for being friends with Americans. He was mocked because his parents worked in the cafeteria of his school and he looked different from the surrounding people as a Chinese American. Since he was young, James never felt that he was able to blend into American society. James freely entered this famous school after he passed the entrance exam. James Lee – James was the son of Chinese immigrants, who worked in the cafeteria of Lloyd Academy.Until Lydia died, Marlyn realized that she never learned what Lydia really dreamed and what Lydia thought. Marlyn began to pin her dream on Lydia and brought Lydia huge stress. After finding that she was pregnant with Hannah, she decided to go back to the family and gave up her dream to be a doctor.

Thus, Marlyn left her family and continued her bachelor’s degree in Toledo. Especially, Doris’s death reminded Marlyn that she did not want to be a perfect housewife like her mother, but she is one now. However, Marlyn did not satisfy with her life after marriage because she realized that she had been far away from her dream. They got married when Marlyn found out that she was pregnant. Marlyn met her history professor, James, in Harvard University she quickly fell in love with him. Marlyn wanted to be a doctor, while her mother was a perfect housewife and a teacher of home economics.

Marlyn Lee – Marlyn was the daughter of Doris Walker, and she was born in Virginia.

Carrying on these regrets from her parents, Lydia felt very stressed. In fact, Lydia neither wanted to be a doctor nor became a gregarious girl in her school. James also imposed his dream, integrating into the surrounding people and becoming a sociable person, to Lydia. Marlyn misconceived that Lydia threw out the book because she did not want to be a traditional woman just like Marlyn dreamed before and believed that Lydia wanted to be a doctor. When Lydia was young, she lied to Marlyn that she threw out the recipe book of Marlyn’s mother. Her cowardly personality, however, looked more parallel with her father, James. Although Lydia was an Amerasian, she had the similar blue eyes as her mother, Marlyn.

Lydia Lee – Lydia was the middle daughter of James and Marlyn who died at 16 years old.

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