Important characters in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan..?

Question

Please list all the significant characters in Lisa See's novel "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan."

it's not mandatory...but if you please, could you also say who that character is...

Like for example:

Lily: narrator, main character

Snow Flower: Lily's laotong...

THANKS VERY MUCH!!

Answer 1

Born within the same hour of the same day and year, Lily and Snow Flower, two girls at the tender age of seven, are matched to become laotong, a relationship stronger than that between a husband and wife. Although the girls share many similarities, including number of siblings, birth order, and height, their social status within the community is not among them. While Snow Flower comes from a wealthier family, Lily's is among the poorest in the country. The girls both struggle to maintain their sacred and unique friendship when truths about Snow Flower's family arise and the women are thrown into different marital circumstances, and eventually a climactic misunderstanding.

Main Characters:

Lily and Snow Flower

Lily uses a secret phoentic code to communicate with Snow Flower and other Chinese women.  Snow Flower is Lily's intimate friend.

From their Milk Years at age seven, to their Hair-Pinning Days at age fifteen, Lily and Snow Flower display a childish exuberance for their friendship. Even so, See highlights significant, yet subtle differences between Lily and Snow Flower that appear in most every chapter of the novel and foreshadow conflict, making the friendship more realistic. Where Lily remains grounded by rules, convinced that harmony and happiness will always result from obeying, Snow Flower seems more detached from the conventionalities of life in nineteenth-century China.

By including historical bits, See paints an educational picture of the obstacles a Chinese woman at the time must face and the intensity of her emotional highs and lows. Even though See's characters share a common thread of hopelessness, she presents others who stray from the norm such as wistful Snow Flower, eccentric Madame Wang, and Lily's humorous aunt, creating a spectrum of realistic personalities.

See takes a world of arranged marriages and the painful tradition of footbinding that may be difficult for some readers with which to identify, and makes it possible for them to understand the characters, to feel their injustices, and to accept their reactions, whether they be good or evil.