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The Power of Love in Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club

 
   In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Four pairs of mothers and daughters embark on the journey that is life.  Each young woman comes to realize how valuable the relationships with their mothers are.  As each daughter learns from her mother, she goes through the sometimes-painful process of trying to understand her enigmatic mother.  To finally unravel the mystery surrounding their mothers is to understand who they, themselves, really are. 

 

 

Suyuan Woo started the "Joy Luck Club" the year she left China.  She began the club as a relief from the heartache that she and her friends experienced "My mother could sense that the women of these families also had unspeakable tragedies they had left behind in China and hopes they couldn't begin to express in their fragile English" (1Tan 6).  Jing-Mei Woo, the daughter of Suyuan, recalls a story told by her mother, "Over the years she told me the same story, except for the ending, which grew darker, casting long shadows into her life, and eventually into mine"(1Tan ... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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