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The Kitchen God's Wife

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The Kitchen God's Wife	comment	The Kitchen God's Wife is a novel by Amy Tan, and, like most of her works, is a novel about Chinese-American female identity.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The first few chapters follow Pearl Brandt, a Chinese-American in San Jose, California, as she describes her "family" - her American husband and two daughters, her mother Winnie, her overbearing Aunt Helen (who is supposedly Winnie's sister-in-law or something; she and Winnie have kept each other's secrets for a long time), and the rest of Helen's family as they prepare for, first, the nth engagement party of Pearl's obnoxious cousin Bao-bao, and then the burial of her Great Aunt Du. Pearl and her family see these obligations as a chore, presumably because Pearl herself is immersed in her American identity. They go anyway, and it's revealed that Pearl has multiple sclerosis (something she has told Helen, but not her own mother). Helen tells her she has a brain tumor and that she refuses to die without Winnie knowing about Pearl's sickness.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Meanwhile, Helen also tells Winnie that she must tell her estranged daughter her own Dark and Troubled Past herself, or Helen will tell her herself.At that point, the narrative switches to Winnie's point of view as she details her life to Pearl - her time as a daughter of a wealthy man's lesser wife, how she was sent to her uncle after her mother's disappearance, and the story of how she survived both her first terrible marriage and World War II.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Wen Fu, who comes out of war unscathed thanks to not actually doing any fighting - every time they're involved in a battle, Wen Fu flies off and tells the captain he was "trailing a Japanese plane."
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: Winnie was beautiful when she was young, and has the photo album to prove it. Helen claims she used to be, but Winnie claims she was rather plain and thick-boned even when in her youth.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The "Kitchen God" was a man who took his hardworking wife for granted, and, when his mistress drove her away, did nothing to help her. Once she leaves, his fortune (that accumulated thanks to her diligence) dwindles, and he realizes how much better off he was with her, despite all the suffering she went through thanks to him. Winnie subsequently relates her life story to her.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Wen Fu. Especially apparent when Pearl and her group of underground women try to figure out some way to convince Wen Fu to divorce Winnie: The love of a favorite concubine to replace her? Public shame that his wife left him? Use his only son as a bargaining chip? But Winnie has to shoot down every strategy since he doesn't care about anything or anyone but himself; sees women as playthings to discard after a few weeks of fun, doesn't feel any social shame from being publicly abandoned or cuckolded by his wife, and feels nothing for his own son except to keep her from leaving. Winnie sums it up best when she says he is "without feelings, without shame, without remorse."
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: The wealthy man Peanut is married off to is heavily implied to be homosexual. She leaves him, however, because she thinks he's a hermaphrodite.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Winnie and Helen, who have put up with each other for so long that each others' faults barely affect them anymore.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: Winnie tells Pearl her life story.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: Following the accident, Wen Fu's missing eye serves to highlight how monstrous he's become.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Not only are Chinese children killed by Japanese soldiers, but every child Winnie conceived while married to Wen Fu died, either in the womb or in early childhood.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Wen Fu refuses to let his doctor buddy get up from playing cards to go check on his dying daughter Yiku, outright stating he wouldn't care if she died. He claims afterwards that he never said such a thing when Winnie calls him out on it, but he still let her die.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: It's implied that Winnie's mother abandoned her. Though whether to commit suicide, run off with a lost love, or join the Communists, no one knows for sure.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Wen Fu, emphasized when he threatens the hospital staff with manslaughter while Winnie is recovering from giving birth to their second child.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Wen Fu likes to kill animals for fun, like the time he went out of his way to run over a train of baby ducks with his car, or shoot a pig that innocently blocked the road to their truck after the farmer who owned him came back to collect him. Wen Fu also hits Yiku when Winnie threatens to leave so hard it's implied she becomes brain-damaged, and refuses to let her get medical treatment when she's dying of dysentery until it's too late.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_35e077	comment	Fourth Date Marriage: Wen Fu and Winnie, whom she'd known for only a few months before they get married. Also played with with Jimmy and Winnie, they go on all of two dates (excluding the dance at which they met) before they decide they're perfect for each other. It's a while before they marry, though.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_3866ab91	type	Deceased Parents Are the Best
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_3866ab91	comment	Deceased Parents Are the Best: Discussed. Winnie has nothing but fond memories of her beautiful and kind mother, but admits she could just be retroactively embellishing them.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Winnie makes it out of the war alive, ditches Wen Fu and marries Jimmy. This is 'foregone' because the Audience Surrogate Pearl is the result of these actions.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Wen Fu, exemplified when he manages to obtain control of Winnie's father's estate by telling Winnie's dad that he can get him out of trouble with the Kuomintang.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_453871ec	comment	What Could Have Been: In-Universe, Winnie often wonders what life would have been like if she did not marry Wen Fu.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_47b6a1e5	type	"Just Joking" Justification
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_47b6a1e5	comment	"Just Joking" Justification: Wen Fu hid his Hair-Trigger Temper in public by claiming he was just kidding afterwards, until he Came Back Wrong, and stopped pretending.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Jiaguo, Helen's first husband, marries her because he feels he has to atone for her sister's Death by Childbirth, which was partly his fault - it was his child, he refused to acknowledge so, and he knocked her so hard when she tried to confront him that she went into early labor and died.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Wen Fu flies into a rage whenever he sees Winnie so much as talk to another man, despite running around on her with as many girls as he possibly can.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: Winnie reflects that she mostly fell for Wen Fu's charming persona, and that she was also so lonely being The Unfavorite she was desperate for any scrap of attention. And then they got married...
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Winnie telling Pearl her story is done through entire flashback chapters to the past.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Wen Fu comes back from his accident with serious anger issues, most of which he takes out on his wife Winnie.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: Subverted for Pearl and Phil. Winnie had such a miserable first marriage that she doesn't care that Pearl's husband is white, just that he's good to her. It also helps that Winnie and her family all come from a time and place in China when they revered all things Western, including white American men.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_663b22d9	type	Dying as Yourself
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_663b22d9	comment	Dying as Yourself: Winnie's father. After suffering a stroke and being a speechless vegetable for years, he wakes up one morning with a clear mind and tongue, sends Wen Fu on a Wild Goose Chase looking for nonexistent hidden gold in the mansion, and dies.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Even in adulthood, Winnie does not fully understand her mother's disappearance. Her aunts' and uncle's disappearance theories don't help much. It's implied that she abandoned Winnie, though.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_6760ff37	type	Secret Secret-Keeper
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_6760ff37	comment	Secret Secret-Keeper: Helen knew all along that Pearl was Wen Fu's biological daughter. Her making excuses for Wen Fu's awful behavior was her way of trying to keep Winnie from resenting Pearl. The moment she learns that Winnie and Pearl have achieved some common ground, she ditches the act and curses Wen Fu's memory.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Out of pride, Wen Fu wants Jimmy to name him after someone who changed history forever. Jimmy names him Judas.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: The army doctors didn't do Winnie any favors when they revived her abusive husband after he got a serious enough concussion that he Came Back Wrong. Helen convinced her husband not to send Wen Fu to jail after he stole an army car, drove drunk, trashed it and killed a girl he was joy-riding with, ensuring that Winnie remained trapped with his new monstrous temper for several years. Not learning her lesson, Helen again tries to "save" Winnie's marriage by telling Wen Fu where she was when she tried to leave him the first time, condemning Winnie to several more years of horrific abuse.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Winnie and Wen Fu's union was negotiated by their families.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_8ace85ef	type	Audience Surrogate
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_8ace85ef	comment	Audience Surrogate: Pearl is the point of view character who is learning about her family's history along with the audience.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_8fdd68fc	type	Self-Serving Memory
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_8fdd68fc	comment	Self-Serving Memory: Wen Fu is a malevolent version of this. The most outrageous example is repeating that he lost his eye fighting the Japanese so much that Winnie has to point out he lost his eye crashing an army truck he stole to go on a drunken joyride with a mistress. Helen is a more benevolent version. She means well, but Winnie recalls that she tends to remember things in a way that's more flattering to herself. The best example would be honestly believing that she gave her old friend Wan Betty the sewing machine she later used to start a new life, when Winnie remembers that Betty was her friend, and she gave her that sewing machine.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Winnie's father, arguably. After mistreating Winnie's mother, sending her away, and marrying her off to what he knows is not a good family, he arguably gets a taste of what he inflicted on her when she and her husband return, and his son-in-law's family blackmail him into "letting" them take over his finances, robbing him blind.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Wen Fu, naturally. Especially heinous when he actively refuses to let his doctor buddy go check on his daughter Yiku when Winnie claims she's dying of dysentery. When Winnie returns holding said dying daughter as proof that she's not exaggerating, Wen Fu furiously berates her for not telling him things had gotten this bad sooner.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: Discussed and defied. Winnie knows Wen Fu and his family are terrible people, but she never blames it on bad genetics. She firmly believes they're terrible people who taught him their terrible values and made him a bad person too. This is part of the reason she never thinks her children by him, including Pearl, are evil.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_9830549e	type	He-Man Woman Hater
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_9830549e	comment	He-Man Woman Hater: Wen Fu sees women as little more than objects to pick up, play with for a bit, then throw away, including his own daughter that he lets die.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_9def1a92	type	Reformed, but Not Tamed
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_9def1a92	comment	Reformed, but Not Tamed: Peanut goes from a spoiled brat to a Communist revolutionary. While not as bad as before, Winnie notes she was still a little vain and self-absorbed.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_9ec132e7	type	Accomplice by Inaction
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_9ec132e7	comment	Accomplice by Inaction: Part of Winnie can never forgive Wen Fu's pilot buddies (nor Helen or Auntie Du to an extent) for never standing up for her when they saw how horrifically he abused her right in front of them for years on end.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_9fb8b0ac	type	Textual Celebrity Resemblance
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_9fb8b0ac	comment	Textual Celebrity Resemblance: The telegraph girl is called "Wan Betty" ("Beautiful Betty") due to her resemblance to Bette Davis.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Auntie Du and Helen eventually have this reaction when they realize just how bad Wen Fu is, and lament not helping Winnie escape him sooner.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Wen Fu loses an eye in a jeepney accident.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a6fc3fd7	type	Matchmaker Crush
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a6fc3fd7	comment	Matchmaker Crush: Winnie develops a crush on Wen Fu while being the go-between for him and Peanut.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The only comeuppance Wen Fu gets for all his wrongdoings is a box full of donkey dung and humiliation in front of Winnie and Helen. He even dies on Christmas Day.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Several minor characters - Betty, Old Aunt, New Aunt, Wu Ma, etcetera, are only known by these terms.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Helen also reveals she knew all along that she had no deadly brain tumor, and only pretended to believe she was dying to strong-arm Winnie into telling Pearl the truth about her life in China, first marriage, and Pearl's conception.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a8b68a9c	type	No Pregger Sex
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a8b68a9c	comment	No Pregger Sex: Winnie wanted this the first time she got pregnant, but Wen Fu overrode her objections.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Jimmy for Winnie.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Women are expected to "know their place," and independent-minded young ladies are looked down on, as this was pre-WWII China. Also, no matter how monstrously abusive a husband is, the wife must just grin and bear it.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Marital Rape License: Wen Fu does this from the beginning, forcing his wife to say and do things she finds sexually demeaning, and overriding her desire to have No Pregger Sex. Taken Up to Eleven after Wen Fu Came Back Wrong - he "punishes" Winnie for every single damn thing she does that he deems "wrong," and it's savage to say the least.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: The most terrifying thing about Wen Fu is he gets off on causing pain and misery to other people and animals. Running over baby ducks? Shooting an innocent pig? Can only get off sexually humiliating and abusing his wife and female servants? Yeah, this guy's a piece of work.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_b474c23f	type	Misery Poker
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_b474c23f	comment	Misery Poker: Peanut is a rather selfish version of it. When Peanut and Winnie meet up years later and commiserate about their unhappy marriages, Peanut claims she got it worst since she saw her rich husband in bed with another man but was otherwise treated nicely by him and her in-laws, brushing off Winnie's attempts to tell her about her own horrific Domestic Abuse.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_b983a56b	comment	Came Back Wrong: Wen Fu was a horrible person to begin with, but then after army doctors inject him with adrenaline to revive his heart after he gets a serious concussion, he comes back a complete monster.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: Peanut is eventually disowned for leaving her husband and joining Communist revolutionaries, but Old and New Aunt secretly go to visit her anyway.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Winnie berates herself for believing Wen Fu was a decent human being. Played with in that she later admits that she tends to have a good Gut Feeling about people, but she was raised to be such an Extreme Doormat by her Old Aunt that she didn't learn to trust her instincts until it was too late.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Wen Fu is Pearl's father, not Jimmy.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: All over the place. Winnie claims there were many instances when Chinese superstition came true right in front of her, but it could have just been a coincidence or her memory playing tricks on her. The most prominent is the fortune teller's prediction of Winnie and Peanut's marriages coming to pass, and when Winnie accidentally dropped a pair of scissors while heavily pregnant and her eternally bouncing baby going stillborn that second.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: No one believed Winnie about how bad her husband was until they saw it for themselves. Even then, most of them still didn't.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Certainly Winnie at the end of her marriage to Wen Fu, although she gets better.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Wen Fu cheats on Winnie constantly, but reserves the right to savagely punish her whenever he suspects she might be cheating. Which is all the time.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: Wen Fu starts being pissy around the time of the accident, and it just gets worse from there.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_e94ff7e2	type	Financial Abuse
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_e94ff7e2	comment	Financial Abuse: On top of all the other way he abuses her, Wen Fu gambles away Winnie's dowry money.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_eb682304	type	Wartime Wedding
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_eb682304	comment	Wartime Wedding: Winnie and Wen Fu get married just before World War II breaks out.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: The only person who doesn't know about Pearl's multiple sclerosis is her own mother Winnie (seeing as Pearl told Auntie Helen, who then told the whole Kwong family).
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_f19ff224	type	TheUNFavourite
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_f19ff224	comment	The Un-Favourite: Winnie, so much. After her mother disappeared, she was the unfavourite in her wealthy father's household until she was sent to live with her uncle and his two wives. And they still treated her cousin Peanut better.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_f432c6bf	type	Glad I Thought of It
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_f432c6bf	comment	Glad I Thought of It: Winnie excessively thanks Henry for using his government connections to get her out of jail. In truth, it was all Auntie Du's doing and she just didn't want to disappoint Helen.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Wen Fu courts Peanut first, but drops her for Winnie once he learns of Winnie's father's wealth.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_fbc54605	type	Riches to Rags
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_fbc54605	comment	Riches to Rags: Winnie's father and his family after the war - moreso after Wen Fu is done with their finances.
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The Kitchen God's Wife / int_fed07537	type	Mighty Whitey
The Kitchen God's Wife / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: Slightly played with. Jimmy is explicitly stated to be Chinese (he acts as a translator and a serviceman), but he's American-born and Winnie falls for him.
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