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Moon Orchid’s Daughter
A doctor in Los Angeles when Brave Orchid and Moon Orchid find him. He left Moon Orchid in China but continued to support her and their daughter financially. He has remarried a younger woman who works as a nurse in his office. He is displeased to be reunited with Moon Orchid and tells her that he left her in China because he did not think that she was strong enough to survive in the United States. Though he obliges Brave Orchid’s request for lunch, he does not want to see his first wife again. Brave Orchid notices that her brother-in-law, who never divorced Moon Orchid, seems more American and looks significantly younger than his first wife, whom he mistakenly refers to as “Grandmother.”
Moon Orchid’s Husband Quotes in The Woman Warrior
The The Woman Warrior quotes below are all either spoken by Moon Orchid’s Husband or refer to Moon Orchid’s Husband . 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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4. At the Western Palace
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“A long time ago,” began Brave Orchid, “the emperors had four wives, one at each point of the compass, and they lived in four palaces. The Empress of the West would connive for power, but the Empress of the East was good and kind and full of light. You are the Empress of the East, and the Empress of the West has imprisoned the Earth’s Emperor in the Western Palace. And you, the good Empress of the East, come out of the dawn to invade her land and free the Emperor. You must break the strong spell she has cast on him that has lost him the East.”
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Moon Orchid’s Husband Quotes in The Woman Warrior
The The Woman Warrior quotes below are all either spoken by Moon Orchid’s Husband or refer to Moon Orchid’s Husband . 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:
).
4. At the Western Palace
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“A long time ago,” began Brave Orchid, “the emperors had four wives, one at each point of the compass, and they lived in four palaces. The Empress of the West would connive for power, but the Empress of the East was good and kind and full of light. You are the Empress of the East, and the Empress of the West has imprisoned the Earth’s Emperor in the Western Palace. And you, the good Empress of the East, come out of the dawn to invade her land and free the Emperor. You must break the strong spell she has cast on him that has lost him the East.”
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