The Joy Luck Club

Rose and Ted's Garden

• Their garden symbolizes their marriage.
• Their marriage is falling apart and dying, like the garden.
• At first, Ted would tend to the garden everyday.
• But now, he is just letting it die.

The Red candle

• The Red Candle symbolize's Lindo's future.
• The candle could either bind her to her marriage, or free her.
• Her blowing out the candle symbolizes a new start.

the rice bowl

• The rice bowl symbolizes health.
• The bowl symbolizes her life, she won't get the most out of it.