How does the author use foreshadowing in Women of the Silk?

In Chapter One, the author introduces the main character, Pei, and her relationship with her mother. She admires her mother from a distance. The strain within her family's dynamics is apparent in the way Pei's questions are silenced and her freedom curtailed. The reader gets the feeling that the home is filled with uneasy silences. At first one gains the impression that there is no love between the parents and children, but this is quickly revealed as untrue in the foreshadowing that says "to show them anything more would just make things more difficult when the time came for them to leave."