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Wang Qiyao's Friendship Failure

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In Wang Anyi's novel Song of Everlasting Sorrow women's friendship is a major theme, however many of the friendships fail. The main reason behind the failure of the friendships was because of Wang Qiyao's ongoing identity crisis. In addition to her identity crisis Wang Qiyao's ulterior motives behind the friendships along with her distrusting personality contributed to the downfall of her two main friendships.

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