The Joy Luck Club (1993)

Vu Mai: Waverly - Age 6-9

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• Waverly (Age 6-9) : I've decided to play chess again.

  Lindo Jong : You think it is so easy. One day quit, next day play. Everything for you is this way: so smart, so easy, so fast. Not so easy anymore.

  Waverly Jong : What she said, it was like a curse. This power I had, this belief in myself, I could actually feel it draining away. I could feel myself becoming ordinary. All the secrets I once saw, I couldn't see them anymore. All I could see was, were my mistakes, my weaknesses. The best part of me just disappeared. But I can't put it all on my mother. I did it to myself. I never played chess again.