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The Significance of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan?s The Joy Luck Club


In her novel The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan tells of the lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers, their hopes, their dreams and the way each of their daughters feel about their mother's lives.  Mother-daughter relationships are the basis for the entire story.  Tan shows the hardships each mother experiences as a child and young adult, and how they all want better lives for their daughters.  She shows the struggles between the mothers and the daughters;  these struggles result from many different things, from the cultural gap, to dreams and goals that may have been set too high.  Each daughter knows her mother means well, but this does not make the battles any easier.  Through careful details Amy Tan shows readers the significance of each of the four mother-daughter relationships in the novel, how each daughter is slowly but surely becoming her mother.

Even though Suyuan Woo is not alive her story is told through her daughter, Jing-mei ?June? Woo.  In the beginning of the novel readers witness June r... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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