Summary Of Amy Tan's 'Rules Of The Game'

In “Rules of the Game” we see the struggles of maintaining a good mother-daughter

relationship. Waverly struggles against her mother because her mother constantly brags about her

daughter’s success in chess. Waverly demonstrates her feeling of anger when her mother

constantly talks about her: “Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off,

then why don’t you learn to play chess”(101). Waverly gets a feeling of anger whenever she talks

about her because her mother is not part of her chess identity.What Waverly doesn’t understand

is that her mother is her greatest ally and that she would do anything so she can succeed in chess.

This constant struggle of trying to have a good relationship is one of the reasons