Twenty-Six Malignant Gates Questions World Lit. Waverly: “Rules of the Game” 1. An invisible strength is a quality or physical characteristic that a person possesses and uses very effectively because that strength is hidden. In Waverly’s case in the game of chess, it is her knowledge of many traps and escape routes that she disguises by misleading her opponent. In her mother’s case, it was her ability to find herself in an oppressive marriage, …showed first 75 words of 899 total…

…showed last 75 words of 899 total…had nothing but high hopes in America. She wanted to be rich and famous. Her idea of the American dream was a materialistic sense of success; being rich and basically forcing her daughter into becoming a prodigy. 3. June’s mother pushes her to be a prodigy because she believes that this will fulfill her American Dream. Rose, however, was the daughter who followed her own mind and was not obedient enough to become a prodigy.