Mrs. Spring Fragrance - “Mrs. Spring Fragrance”
She is an immigrant who perches in Seattle and swiftly embraces the American ethos: “When Mrs. Spring Fragrance first arrived in Seattle, she was unacquainted with even one word of the American language. Five years later her husband, speaking of her, said: “There are no more American words for her learning.” Her speedy mastery of American English validates the idea that she was resolute to be American.
Mr. Spring Fragrance - “Mrs. Spring Fragrance”
He is Mrs. Spring Fragrance’s spouse “whose business name was Sing Yook, was a young curio merchant. Though conservatively Chinese in many respects, he was at the same time what is called by the Westerners, “Americanized.” However, his spouse’s ‘Americanization’ is grander than his.
Chin Yuens - “Mrs. Spring Fragrance”
They are the Spring’s conformist Chinese neighbors whose “daughter of eighteen with whom Mrs. Spring Fragrance was on terms of great friendship.”
Laura (Mai Gwi Far) - “Mrs. Spring Fragrance”
She is the Chin Yuens' appealing daughter who does not sanction her arranged matrimony.
Kai Tzu - “Mrs. Spring Fragrance”
He is Laura’s ‘Americanized’ boyfriend who is “amongst baseball players as one of the finest pitchers on the Coast.”
Pan - “Its Wavering Image”
Sui Sun writes, “Pan was a half white, half Chinese girl. Her mother was dead, and Pan lived with her father who kept an Oriental Bazaar on Dupont Street.” Pan primarily catalogues herself as Chinese.
Mark Carson - “Its Wavering Image”
He is white journalist who compels Pan to identify with whites instead of with the Chinese.
