What does the wind symbolize in this quote from "Rules of the Game"? "I felt the wind rushing around my hot ears."

Like her mother, the wind is a force that Waverly feels powerless to control.

Waverly has heard about wind all her life.  Early in the story, Mrs. Jong says, "Wise guy, he not go against wind...Strongest wind cannot be seen.”

Chinese life tells Waverly that she is to respect the "unseen" wind...the authority of her parents, the strictures of her culture.  However, all of Waverly's "American-ness" tells her that the pursuit of happiness is one's own construction.  It is the pull between self-effacement and self-promotion.  Waverly is caught in the cross-gales.