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Mona is Callie’s younger sister and Mr. Chang and Mrs. Chang’s youngest daughter. She is highly assimilated into American life, as evidenced by her effortless friendship with Annie Lardner. Mona uses American slang and displays a breezy confidence that the Changs will get accepted into the country club. She takes more initiative than her sister Callie. However, her efforts usually backfire. Mona is the one who decides to fill a suggestion box at the restaurant full of fake customer complaints, hoping it will lead her father to hire more help and free her from working in the pancake house. Similarly, Mona tells her friend Annie that the Changs want to join the local country club, leading to an intrusive visit from Annie’s mother Mrs. Lardner, who volunteers to write the Changs a reference letter.
Mona Quotes in In the American Society
The In the American Society quotes below are all either spoken by Mona or refer to Mona. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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His Own Society
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“You know, the Chinese have a saying,” said my mother. “To do nothing is better than to overdo. You mean well, but you tell me now what will happen.”
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In the American Society
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“You girls are good swimmers,” he said finally. “Not like me.”
Then his shirt started moving again, and we trooped up the hill after it, into the dark.
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Mona Quotes in In the American Society
The In the American Society quotes below are all either spoken by Mona or refer to Mona. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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His Own Society
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“You know, the Chinese have a saying,” said my mother. “To do nothing is better than to overdo. You mean well, but you tell me now what will happen.”
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In the American Society
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“You girls are good swimmers,” he said finally. “Not like me.”
Then his shirt started moving again, and we trooped up the hill after it, into the dark.
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