晚餐[ Waverly Narrating ] Of course, the night was still young.Thank God I already prepped him on the Emily Post of Chinese manners.How are you?[ Man Speaking Chinese ]Actually, there were a few things l forgot to mention.[ Rich ] Let me make a toast.He shouldn't have had that second glasswhen everyone else had had only half an inch just for taste.Shrimp. My favorite.He should have taken only a small spoonful of the best dish until everyone had had a helping.He has good appetite.He shouldn't have bragged he was a fast learner.But the worst was when Rich criticized my mother's cooking,and he didn't even know what he had done.As is the Chinese cook's custom,my mother always insults her own cooking,but only with the dishes she serves with special pride.This dish not salty enough.No flavor. It's too bad to eat.But please.Oh! Uh.That was our cue to eat someand proclaim it the best she'd ever made.You know, Lindo,all this needs is a little soy sauce.[ Gasping ] Oh!So, how'd your mom react when you told her about the wedding?It never came up.How come?She'd rather get rectal cancer.Oh.Lena独白My whole life turned in this moment.If I had Ieft him or kiIIed him,I would not have lost the one thing that mattered.[ Water Rippling ][ Baby Cooing ][ Cooing ]My mind kept repeating a single thought.He had taken from me my innocence,my youth, my heart,everything.[ Water Splashing ][ Splashing Continues ]So I took from him the only thing l could.[ Screaming ][ Sobbing ]My baby was so light in my arms,because his little spirit had flown away.And with his, my spirit had also gone.Years Iater, I moved to America.But what I had done in China was always with me.In time, I remarried and l had a daughter.But Lena had no spirit,because l had none to give her.Rose见父母This is Rose Hsu, my girlfriend.[ Rose Narrating ] The one word sent me into totaI shock,from which, I'm afraid, l've never quite recovered.-Hello. Hi. -[ Dad ] Hello.Is this a private reverie or can an old lady join you?Sure.You and Ted haven't known each other long, have you?Actually, no.I've never heard him speak of you until this morning.But it's always a thrill for a mother to hear that sort of excitementin her son's voice.So I hope you won't misunderstandwhat I have to say.I want you to know, Rose, that we're a very liberal family.[ Rose Narrating ] l couldn't believe what she was telling me.lt was straight out of some awtuI racist movie,like The World of Suzie Wong.[ Ted's Mother ] Ted is going to be working with his father in the company.He's going to be judged by people of a different standard.Publishers, authors, critics and their wives.They won't be as understanding as we are.Mrs. Jordan, you sound as if Ted and I are getting married.That's hardly the case.Oh, I know, dear, it's just that, well, the way the world is.How unpopular Vietnam was.I'm not Vietnamese. I'm American.Of course you are. It's just...I understand you. That's all I'm trying to say.-Do you understand? -[ Ted ] Mom?Hello, darling.-We're having a wonderful visit. -"Hello, darling"?You know, I always knew you were a jerk.But, shit, this is the first time in my life I am ashamed of you.How dare you use that language.I think you better apologize right now.I'm sorry, Mom, you made a fuckin' asshole out of yourself in front of the woman I love.Rose独白[ Rose Narrating ] l wasn't sorry what his mother did.How eIse wouId I have known, if he hadn't rescued me,how wonderful he was?That he loved me.In six months, we were married.After the wedding, the fears began to sink in,take hold.Everything l had married into.The pressure, the weight of it.l promised myself that l could handle it.That nothing, nothing could ever change me.Or us.[ Rose ] Wayne, could you chop this up into smaller slices?Last time they were way too big. Thanks.Also, could you dress the deviled eggs with tomatoes...[ Rose Narrating ] At first, it was just a bunch of little things,loving things a wife would do behind the scenes without him even knowing.You know, like paying the househoId biIIs,buying him special gifts that showed my love.It's still too salty.The beautiful part was, he never had to ask for any of this.In fact, he never even knew.l told myself that was the selfless way, the loving way,instead of the chickenshit way.l was offered a fellowship in fine artsto this school I admired in Idaho.Of course, that was out of the question.The interesting part was, l never asked the question,not even of myself.[ Ted ] I really don't understand.[ Rose Narrating ] He was running two of his family's magazines now. There were four or five business affairs each week.l was glad to help and knew he appreciated it.-I just don't understand that at all. -[ Liquid Splashing ]I don't... I really don't.-[ Ted ] If you can explain to me... -[ Woman ] Because...[ Rose Narrating ] And, over time,I could see that Ted was becoming bored.We said less and less.So I tried harder.l got pregnant for the worst reason imaginable, a last attempt to hang on. Of course, I never thought of it that way at the time.-[ Baby Crying ] -The good news was, he adored her.厨房对话[ June Narrating ] l was so humiliated.Outsmarted by Waverly and betrayed by my own mother.I see you didn't touch your crab.Like I said at dinner, not hungry.What? Still mad at Waverly?How could I be mad at someone with all that style?It's just a shame that I wasn't born that way.-So it's me you're mad at? -No.I'm just sorry that you got stuck with such a loser.That I've always been so disappointing.What do you mean, disappoint?-Piano? -Everything. My grades, my job.Not getting married.-Everything you expected of me. -Not expect anything!Never expect!Only hope.Only hoping best for you.-It's not wrong to hope. -No?Well, it hurts.Because every time you hoped for something I couldn't deliver, it hurt. [ Crying ] It hurt me, Mommy.And no matter what you hoped for,I'll never be more than what I am.And you never see that!What I really am.June, since your baby time,I wear this next to my heart.Now you wear next to yours.It will help you know.[ Crying Continues ]I see you.[ Whispering ] I see you.That bad crab, only you tried to take it.Everybody else want best quality.You, your thinking different.Waverly took best-quality crab.You took worst.Because you have best-quality heart.You have style no one can teach.Must be born this way.I see you.。