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The Kitchen God's Wife Culture, Relationship, & Courage In The Kitchen God's Wife, by Amy Tan, the primary character, Jiang Weili, develops from a self-sacrificing and insecure person to a dependent, self-assuring, independent, and strong person. These developments occur amidst wartime China, where she not only had to overcome the boundaries set by her culture and the society around her, but she also had to balance this struggle with that of being in a politically unstable …

…weakened over the years by acting as a "proper wife", hoping that her life would improve, but she became totally submissive to her husband and lacked the strength to stand up for herself. However, her children, her life in prison, and Jimmy Louie all made her realize her inner strengths and her struggle to live. She developed the strength to infuse her culture, relationship and courage into what later became a strong, independent Winnie Louie.