The Complexity of Mother and Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan’s Joy Lu

The Complexity of Mother and Daughter Relationships in Amy Tans Joy Luck participation Since the beginning of cadence the mother and missy relationship has been complex. The book The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a great example of the mother and young woman relationship. In the book Amy Tan writes about four women who migrate to the States from China. All of the women were in search of a better life since the lives they had in China were not what they treasured for themselves. Even though all of the women did not k nowadays each other until they met in America, they all sh atomic number 18 the same horrible memories of their past. The book mainly focuses on the expectations, hopes, and dreams that the women and their daughters have for themselves. Even though at the beginning the mothers and the daughters do not always see inwardness to eye at the end the daughters start to realize that their mothers just wanted the best for them and not the worst, The mothers see themselves in the daughters.(Matthews). The relationship between Suyuan and Jing-mei is pretty difficult because they are both coming from two different finishings that are completely opposite of one another. Suyuan is trying to teach Jing-mei the Chinese culture when all Jing-mei sees is the American culture, that is on television and all around her. Jing-meis friends do not even think that she is a true Chinese person. Suyuan wants her daughter to obey her and make her proud even if it means making Jing-mei do something that she does not want to do. As a Chinese women Suyuan knew her role to be a good wife and mother and to always stand by her husbands side. On the other hand Jing-mei does not want this, she wants to be independent, and to be able to make her own decisions because... ... to teach her about her culture and where she was from, And now I see(Tan 331). Jing-mei finally learns the answers to all of the questions that her mother left nonreciprocal when she passed away. Although Jing-mei fought so hard to not do anything Suyuan said, it was not because she did not comparable her mother. It was because she did not understand where she was coming from. It is always hard to understand somebody when you do not understand any of the hardships that one has been through. WORK CITEDMatthews, Amanda. geomorphologic Analysis...Thanks to Amanda Matthews. <httpwww.cwrl.utexas.edu/sbowen/314fall/novels/lit.html. Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. New York, 1989. Tavernise, Peter. Fasting of the Heart Mother-Tradition and Sacred Systems in Amy Tans The Joy Luck Club. <http//www.mindspring.com/petert/tan.htm. 12 March 1992