Meet the Cast
Narrator (Maxine Hong Kingston)
As both the narrator and author, Maxine Hong Kingston invites the reader into her alternate dimension where ghosts take on many forms and truth is whatever gets passed on. We have no reason to doub...
Brave Orchid
The Woman Warrior could be seen as Kingston's negotiation of her relationship with her mother, Brave Orchid. That's something a lot of us can relate to, right? Through Kingston's writing, we see he...
Moon Orchid
We know that Kingston's female relatives are of particular interest in this book. Kingston's dedication of the fourth chapter to the story of her aunt Moon Orchid's arrival in the United States is...
No Name Woman
Kingston's no-name aunt is the first person we hear a story about in The Woman Warrior. Through this story, Kingston immediately lays out the influence of her mother as a storyteller, as well as th...
Quiet Girl in Chinese Class
Like the No Name Woman, the quiet girl in Kingston's Chinese class is not given a proper name. You remember, the girl who Kingston more or less beats up in the kitchen? This girl is significant bec...