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An-mei's mother - An-mei's mother was a strong but sorrowful woman who, after being widowed while still young, was tricked into becoming the fourth wife of Wu Tsing. She went to live in his household in the city of Tientsin. When An-mei's grandmother, Popo, dies, An-mei goes to live with her mother in the city.
In respect to this, who is an MEI's mom?
A strong, resourceful woman, Suyuan never gives up the search for her first two daughters. An-mei Hsu An-mei's mother, the wife of a respected scholar, loses all status when her husband dies; she is raped and forced into concubinage by the wealthy Wu Tsing. She kills herself so that An-mei can have freedom.
Also question is, why did an Mei's mother kill herself?
In an article that Tan wrote for Life magazine in April 1991, she explained that Jing-mei "killed herself by swallowing raw opium buried in the New Year's rice cake." After her mother's death, Daisy (Amy's mother) married her abusive first husband in China and had three daughters.
Two days before the lunar new year, An-mei's mother commits suicide in order to give her children a better life. Wu Tsing, who is afraid of dead, angry wives haunting him, promises to revere An-mei's mother as a first wife, and to raise An-mei and her brother as his honored children.