In this story, the narrator is playing an imaginary chess game with someone named Lindo Jong. He has never met him, but has heard of him and wants to know who he is. But he is unsure who is his opponent. He doesn’t know who he’s playing against. So, he decides to play against himself. Then, he finds out that he can’t beat him.
Amy Tan’s novel Rules of the Game is a story about a girl named Waverly, a very competitive person. She learns the art of invisible strength from her mother. This way, she wins in games and arguments. Her mom compares her strength to wind and invisibility, and she grows up knowing how to play the game well. In this way, she’s able to compete against her opponent and gain respect.
The narrator of the book, Waverly, has never played chess before. She’s been surrounded by a series of imaginary chess games with her mother, but she has never seen one in person. When the narrator plays the game, she doesn’t have an opponent. She’s playing against herself. She isn’t playing herself, but she’s trying to learn how to play the game.
The narrator’s fictional chess game is a metaphor for life. The narrator is learning to compete against herself. She’s learning to become more observant and to be a better competitor. She’s also gaining the skills necessary to win the game. The narrator’s mother is her opponent.
In this novel, the narrator’s opponents are her friends and her family. The narrator uses the chess game metaphorically in order to describe her life. This makes the story more vivid and involving for the reader. It is not hard to imagine a world where there’s a person with no chess set. However, the narrator’s imagined ‘chess opponents’ do not play a role in the narrator’s reality.
In the narrators’ imaginary chess game, the narrator often uses the game metaphorically. In addition to being an opponent in the game, he is also a narrator’s chess prodigy. In this case, she uses the narrator’s “invisible” strength to win a game.
In the narrator’s imaginary chess game, the narrator is the opponent. In the second story, the narrator’s mother is the opponent. Her mother is an overprotective Chinese woman. She wants her son to be quiet, which is an obstacle for him. She rewards the boy for restraint, but the narrator rewards him for his silence.