The Joy Luck Club Part 3, Prologue Summary

This is an exchange between a mother and her grown daughter, taking place in the master bedroom of the daughter’s new condo.
The mother insists that mirrors cannot be placed at the foot of the bed, because they turn away marriage happiness.
The daughter is dismissive, sick of her mom’s superstition and all of the bad omens she sees.
The mother corrects the imbalance by giving her daughter a second mirror to be placed at the head of the bed.
The two mirrors are meant to help fertility; the mother says that she can see her future grandchild in the second mirror.
When the daughter looks in the mirror, she finds that her mother is right: through her own reflection, she can see her future child.