The daughter began to think about how she had got to spend so much time with her mother, and she took it for granted, while the twins never saw their mother and now would never get to. Her negative feelings towards her actions of the past got even worse when she gained knowledge that the twin daughters were still alive. It wasn’t until her mother died of a brain aneurysm that the daughter finally realized her ignorance, and began to feel bad. She also never showed much interest in her mother’s past. The daughter did not even accept herself as an Asian. Throughout her life this daughter was embarrassed by her Asian mother’s ways. After the war the mother tried desperately to find the twins, but eventually gave up hope after moving to America with her new husband.
The twins were left by their mother on the side of the road in order to give them any chance of survival during a Japanese invasion. Her half-sisters are twins from their mothers first marriage, and the Asian-American daughter is from the second marriage. Summary: The story “A Pair of Tickets”, an Asian-American woman goes to China to visit her half-sisters with her father.
