A Pair Of Tickets June May Character Analysis

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The main character in “A Pair of Tickets”, written by Amy Tan is a young woman named June May. Throughout June May’s life she has always denied her mother’s remarks on her heritage; however upon her mother’s passing she leaves New York in search for her sisters. June May takes this trip with her father and this trip served as a major turning point for June May’s understandings of culture and race. Likewise, throughout “A Pair of Tickets” June May is initially in denial of her Chinese heritage; however, as the story progressed June May finally understands that her heritage goes deeper than her actions and she is and will forever be Chinese.
June May initially is very standoffish about her Chinese heritage; however, she soon begins to embrace …show more content…
June May at this point, before her father began to tell the story, was recalling events in her life. She then brought up the fact that her mother had actually had “twin daughters from her first marriage” (Tan 149) and that she was on this train with her “seventy-two-year-old father, Canning Woo” (Tan 149) just to meet them. June May knew that her mother had to abandon them on the road when she was “fleeing to Kweilin for Chungking in 1944” (Tan 149) and that was all that she knew. She described her moment of not knowing more by saying that in her head that simply “remained on the side of road, listening to bombs” all these years. (Tan 149) which was obviously untrue she was just describing the fact that wish she had known more and that she didn’t. Then as June May beings to listen to the story about how and why her mother left her sisters June May then became very selfless and understanding. Even asking her father to “tell [her] in Chinese” (Tan 157) of the story of why her mother had abandoned the twins. This was a very important moment in the story where June May finally felt Chinese and wanted to continue to understand the
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