The short story 'A Pair of Tickets' is a component of a novel 'The Joy Luck Club' by Amy
Tan which focuses on a woman fulfilling the lifelong wish of her mother. The title symbolizes the
discovery of the narrator's identity, and the soul of her emotional nature and feelings towards her
mother. The setting in this story changes the soul of the narrator as she begins to discover things
about herself and her two different cultures. As the story progresses, she begins to question things
in her life, her identity, her mother's life, and the lives of her newly discovered twin sisters. She
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