Characters in Asian Candy

Characters in Asian Candy-- Diary of a Single Asian Female


Character Backgrounds
Candy
 
Underdog
Poor
Struggling
Humble
Young
Pretty
Sexy

Candy

Candy is a 25-year-old beautiful single Asian woman in New York City looking for Mr. Right while having fun shopping and dining in the big city. She goes on many dates, mostly with men she meets on the Internet. Most of the dates don't result in anything exciting until she meets a hot Wall Street banker who leads Candy to sexual awakening of previously unknown heights. Candy has a lot of student loan and credit card debt; her NYU degree and life in the big city do not come cheap. Candy must find a sugar daddy to help pay the bills. Will she find a sugar daddy who will also fulfill her deepest sexual needs? Will she meet Mr. Right? Read about Candy's NYC dating adventures in Diary of a Single Asian Female: Dating Adventures in NYC.

Candy is an immigrant from Taiwan who arrived in New York City as a young girl. She attended a top high school in New York but failed to get into an Ivy League college, which haunts her. She blames this on her background: she's a poor immigrant who was distracted from her schoolwork because she needed to handle her family’s business and finances. Her father, nervous about survival in the United States, yelled a lot, which affected Candy negatively.
She is a self-deprecating, self-described loser who struggles with being a poor immigrant and laden with debt in a city that requires lots of money to live well. Lots of young people can relate to having tons of student loans.
She admits to contemplating committing suicide at age 17, something that many Asian women living with two cultures often try to attempt. But her will to survive is too strong. What drives her is life itself. She deals with dark situations by making jokes, having read the book, The Power of Positive Thinking, by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Due to her lack of parental guidance, she often turns to books for mentorship:
The Rules: Time Tested Guide to Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right, by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider
What Men Want: Three Professional Single Men Reveal to Women What it Takes to Make a Man Yours, by Bradley Gertsman and Christopher Pizzo
The Power of Positive Thinking, by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
What else drives Candy:
1. Helping her siblings, since she is the eldest. She is very protective of her siblings and refuses to leave them until totally necessary. They are like her kids.
2. Her Asian parents— Tiger parents who immigrated to the United States for a better life. For examples of such Asian parents, see the Pinterest Board, High Expectations Asian Father. 
3. Jade Wang, a girl in her high school who was born in the US and has rich parents who give her everything. Jade likes to shop and attract rich white boys.
4. Innate ambition and will to survive
5. Competitiveness of Asians: it is Asian to want to be the best. Parents hammer that into your being at an early age. This adds to Candy’s ambition.
Personality
Candy is fast-thinking, fast-talking, witty and hilarious. She learned that personality goes a long way. She has a strong sex drive and curiosity that gets her in trouble and in adventures, such as her mother discovering her dildo and her podiatrist date. She is courageous and takes chances.
She is creative in her thinking, leading her to take action that results in unusual situations: living in a women’s residence for a month, at the podiatrist office, at the Upper East Side mansion
She tries to be a good person by giving food to the homeless only to have it turned down.

Hunter. Candy’s Ex-Boyfriend
Hunter, Candy's Ex-Boyfriend.  Photo by Travis Seera on Pexels.com

Age 35 at time of first meeting Candy
ER doctor who took Candy’s virginity and taught her about sex.
They met at a Manhattan nightclub.  His first line to her, “Let me guess, you are an NYU student.”
Handsome, suave doctor. Blondish Brown hair and Blue eyes. Looks great in scrubs and doctor’s coat
Likes younger women
Was still married to a blonde Caucasian woman when he first met Candy, although his wife had moved out of the house
He was planning on having kids with his wife; thus he drove a family sedan and bought a house
Wanted to marry Candy but he was not romantic enough
Has family money, and a big family
Schools: Horace Mann (private school), Columbia University undergrad, Columbia medical school

Baba Chan (Father)
Emigrated to the United States as a foreign student from Taiwan
His goal for coming to America was to save his mom in China (he could not have reached her from Taiwan—communications between the two countries were forbidden)
Personality: nervous, chain-smoking, always yelling
Loves his kids in a weird way—like many Asian parents, he was not demonstrative, pushed them to do better than he did

Mama Chan

Tiger mom who struggles to survive in America
Tries to teach Candy the right way, always tells her to do better
Discovers Candy’s dildo and says funny things about it
Says other entertaining things in Mandarin
Had an abortion to survive in the US (too many kids already). She loves the kids she already has, so perhaps this was her way of saving her children.

Lucy
 
Lucy
Lucy is a housewife in a sexless marriage who has a  sugar daddy who spoils her with luxury items.  She encourages Candy to find a sugar daddy of her own to help pay the bills and afford luxury handbags and shoes.  Lucy has her own series of books under The Secret Sex Life of Mrs. Lucy J: How I Met My Billionaire Sugar Daddy., by Justine Reade, available at Singleinmanhattan.com.
Blonde and blue-eyed beauty who is married to a man who does not love her
She finds solace in other men
Is afraid of divorce for many reasons
Her husband has power over her due to her daddy issues
Lives in a white suburban house in a white suburban town
She loves her babies and will not leave them
Has dreams of living the Sex and the city lifestyle but her kids are keeping her in the suburbs

Jade Wang
 
Jade Wang
Jade Wang, a girl in Candy’s elite high school who was born in the United States and has rich parents who give her everything. Jade likes to shop and attract rich white boys.
Her dad is a partner in a law firm; her mom is a stay at home mom who tortures Jade
She is the Asian mean girl: popular, rich, bitchy, smart
She is what every girl wants to be.
Loves designer fashion and daddy buys them for her.  Jade is the character w viewers would love to hate, but they can’t stop looking because she’s so stylish. She dresses in designer fashions and carries expensive handbags. Eye candy and fashion porn. Also showcases Asian competitiveness.
Candy and Jade went to the South Street Seaport and Stone Street in the Financial District to ogle rich Wall Street guys
They both bought Ferragamo flats which hurt Candy’s feet, and later Candy finds the designer shoes chewed up by a mouse. Very symbolic of a status symbol that did not suit Candy.
Wardrobe: designer bags, shoes, jeans

Massimo Montana
Massimo Montana, aka Mr. M                          Photo by Pascal Renet on Pexels.com

Manhattan billionaire who made his money from books on finance and also a large inheritance from his dad who owned half a billion dollars in NY real estate
Handsome lean muscular
Is a father figure to Candy
Tries to mentor her
Mrs. M
 
Mrs. M

Upper East Side billionaire’s trophy wife
Blonde, beautiful and fit
Might have gotten Mr. M by allowing him to have threesomes with her and another man, as a hot wife (does it with the trainer while Mr. M watches)
Always working out with trainer
Mr. and Mrs. M add to the glitz and glamour of the city.
Please take a look at the Pinterest board
The Babysitter, the Billionaire and his Hot Wife for a visualization of this story.
Wardrobe: Lululemon workout clothes and ball gowns
A closet full of clothes, handbags, and shoes

Candy’s Friend Dave
Candy's Friend, Dave.  Photo by Gratisography on Pexels.com

They confide in each other about dating, giving her the male point of view. This is very important to her because she wants to know how men think
However, Dave might not be the right guy for the job since he’s very goofy: Not suave, posts long paragraphs on dating websites, complains about paying on dates, works as a journalist who covers news such as bearded bikers in Minnesota
”A friend of mine, Dave, who is constantly telling me about his dating adventures, told me that a girl kept on calling him and finally, he just told her, "Why are you calling me? Let me call you." To tell you the truth, I don't know why women want to go out with him. He's so goofy! He put up an ad on a dating site and wrote five big paragraphs about how he thinks there should be some initial mutual attraction and what he wants out of a relationship. He's always complaining about how women don't say thank you when he pays for the date. This guy is so weird. They can't say thank you after the evening is over. They must say thank you as the waiter takes away the check. That's his test for whether a woman is worth pursuing. God help any woman who orders TWO cappuccinos with her dessert.”
“As for Mr. Podiatrist, I guess I’m just not ready to be a dominatrix yet. I emailed my friend Dave about this. He emailed back: “I am at a fleabag motel in Minnesota on business writing about some bearded bikers, and you have your very own sex slave? Where is the justice in this world?!!!”
Diary of a Single Asian Female: Adventures in New York City
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Lucy





Lucy