Sitting Quietly

For eight whole years Lily went without speaking to Snow Flower. Lady Lu was the greatest woman in the country, her life being spread into pages of men's writing and her every move being watched. But when Snow Flower's daughter came begging for help, it changed everything she had previously believed. When Lady Lu heard Snow Flower was deathly ill, she rushed to her laotong's side, giving her treatment and love she deserved. Lily had been naive for years now, soon realizing Snow Flower had never wanted to lose her or replace her and that Lily (in Lady Lu's personality) abandoned her and left her to die. These startling thoughts haunted Lady Lu for the rest of her surprisingly long life. I believe that it is karma that she had lived for eighty long years. She had time to think about her actions and reflect upon them, begging for forgiveness and dying slowly on the inside to retrieve the love she needed to survive upon. Her character had developed greatly throughout of the course of the novel. Beginning as a poor rural, unloved child, to the greatest woman in China, filthy rich and high status family. In the end she lost all the loves she had ever obtains, symbolizing her mistakes throughout her life. As hard as it was for her to watch loved ones go, it taught her valuable lessons on how life truly is and how it treats its victims.