Jasmine Lesson Plan

In today's reading, when and why does the narrator wish to be more like Lillian Gordon? How does she go about trying to implement her wish? Does she succeed? Why or why not?

The narrator wishes to be more like Lillian Gordon when she finds out that Du is leaving for California and she feels overtaken by emotion. She wishes she could be like Lillian, who put Jasmine on a bus and didn't cry or stay to wave goodbye, but when she orders herself not to cry, her mind immediately, frantically, searches for explanations for how she and Bud failed, for ways to assume blame to somehow wrap her mind around the sorrow and loss she feels. It is a coping mechanism. Whether we can say...