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JOSS AND GOLD (CHARACTERS) - Coggle Diagram
JOSS AND GOLD (CHARACTERS)
Henry Yeh
is a Malaysian-born Chinese man and husband to Li An. He's a dependable and hard-working man. He loves Suyin even though she's not his biological daughter. He's fully committed in his marital life with Li An before they divorced.
Hard-working
Selfish
Ellen
A Malaysian woman of Chinese descent who is a good friend of Li An. She treated Suyin as her niece since she deemed Li An as her own sister. She took care of them, even after Henry abandoned them in the hospital when Suyin was just born.
Li An
A Malaysian-born Chinese enamored of British poets and beginning her first job, as an English tutor. Marries Henry but befriends and then falls for Chester Brookfield
Bold
Loud
Unconcerned
Wild
Chester Brookfield
A Princeton-educated Peace Corps volunteer who comes to serve a two-year term in Malaysia. He falls into a love affair with Li An and they have a daughter together named Suyin. Years later, he becomes a Professor of
Anthropology at a private American college and has a wife.
Gina
A Malaysian woman of Chinese descent and one of Li An's bestfriends. Gina's doomed relationship with Paroo, has led them to commit suicide, but Paroo survives the attempt.
Paroo
A Punjabi-Hindu man who's in love with Gina. He survives the suicide attempt but is forever haunted by the memory of her.
Meryl
An ambitious Columbia-educated wife of Chester Brookfield.
Suyin
A daughter that resulted from Li An and Chester's affair.
Auntie
(Mr Yeh's first wife, Henry's biological mother) is a conservative woman.
"The family will think you don't like the dinner or that you are proud".
Second Mrs Yeh
is the second wife to Mr Yeh (Henry's father).
Confident
Observant
"Auntie had those peculiar women's eyes that could detect immediately where a fingernail had cracked and not been filed."