Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to bop around Southeast Asia, peeking into the windows of the richest people and ogling all their fancy things? Ditto. Luckily Crazy Rich Asians of...
What's Up With the Title?
Crazy Rich Asians isn't a super complicated title to unpack, particularly since it directly describes the subject matter of the book. The phrase itself is muttered by none other than Rachel Chu as...
What's Up With the Epigraph?
Nowhere in the world are there to be found people richer than the Chinese. –Ibn Batuta (Fourteenth Century)Ibn Batuta was a Moroccan Muslim visiting China in the 1340s. Yeah, they were rich back...
What's Up With the Ending?
The final moment of this book, an exchange between Rachel and her mother as they watch Nick and Peik Lin bicker about where to find the best food, signifies a level of acceptance on Rachel's part:...
Tough-o-Meter
(4) Base Camp No amount of money in the world can make this easier: the number of characters, changes in settings, sprinkling of words from multiple Chinese dialects, and name-dropping of designers...