Analyze the following characters: Lena St. Clair and Ying Ying St. Clair in The Joy Luck Club. Particularly from the chapter "Waiting Between...

In "Waiting Between the Trees," a chapter in Amy Tan's
The Joy Luck Club, the narrator Ying Ying St. Clair describes the
marriage of her daughter Lena to Harold.  Harold is a cold man who asks Lena to "share"
all the household money and responsibility equally.  He does not take into consideration
that he makes more money than Lena makes and when the time comes to split bills, he
takes advantage of Lena's passivity.  Ying Ying relates her daughter's loveless marriage
to her own bad marriage to a man in China.  She did not really love her first husband,
but the marriage was arranged and Ying Ying thought her husband would be happy when they
had a son.  However, her husband begins having numerous affairs, so Ying Ying aborts her
baby.  From that point on, Ying Ying has a cold place in her heart, and she feels that
she was not able to give her daughter any sense of hope or self-worth.  Ying Ying thinks
that she did not have any strength left in her to raise Lena properly, and in this
chapter, she tells her daughter that she must fight to get more out of her marriage or
leave it to find a better one.