In the beginning of the novel, Jing-Mei, first shows the reader her fears of not being able to ever identify a connection with her mother by stating, "What can I tell them about my mother? I don't know anything..." This statement was probably meant to concur with her misunderstanding of how she could possibly replace her mother adequately enough to be an actual piece in her mother's tradition of the Joy Luck Club. Jing-Mei does have an idea of her mother's general history, and describes to the reader the roots from which " Joy Luck" took life, but with the statement of "I never thought my mother's Kweilin story was anything but a Chinese fairy tale," Jing-Mei shows a side of wonder of too what really happened throughout her late mother's lifetime. A lack of a connection with that of her mother may be held somewhat accountable from an instance to which Jing-Mei descri

Upon the last of these situations, Jing-Mei not only connects with her mother, but also finds herself as well, perhaps.

This type of dialogue may show more of a confusing state of affairs, as Jing-Mei does not understand her mother's past attitude or actions in her childhood and wishes to show her mother her way of thinking now. The result of this seems to be uneasiness aroused with the two, which is followed throughout the remainder of the text.

'That's the trouble, ...you never rise"

In "Best Quality," a section of the novel, the reader is shown a sentimental exchange of words between Jing-Mei and Suyuan to which Suyuan displays a confession of sorts of her care for her daughter. Upon the ordeal with the serving of the crab meats, Suyuan takes note that, "Only you [Jing-Mei] pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different."

It is only at the end of the novel when Jing-Mei comes into meeting with her half sisters in China that she perhaps connects fully with her mot

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Approximate Word count = 709
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)