The Joy Luck Club Essay - Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a story base on Chinese women in American tradition. One of the characters in the novel, Lindo Jong was born as a female in China. Lindo was undervalued because as a Chinese woman, she had an arranged marriage, she was treated unfairly by her husband, and also her own parents. Born as a female in China, many decisions are made by elders or men, not much opinion are made, even as an adult.As Lindo, being in an arranged marriage at age of two, she would not be able to give any opinion in any big events in life. With everything being arranged for her at a small age, later life you will be not able to arrange anything with any decision or opinion. "Decisions either made by your parents to the village matchmakers." (Tan 1989, p.43) By getting or the arranged marriage, it is a promise by your parents to the other family. Promises are very important in Chinese tradition. With every decisions made her life is already made for her. "Huang Taitai hurried me upstairs to the second floor and i
Lindo was treated unfairly by her parents. From the day that she was born, her parents mistreated her badly. When Lindo was two years old, her parents promised the arrange marriage made by the village matchmaker to Huang Taitai's son. Her parents didn't ask for Lindo's opinion, even if they do, Lindo was only two years old and not mature enough, she kept her promise to her parents and married with Huang Taitai's son without any unsatisfactory. It shows the Chinese daughter should obey their parents and can't have her own opinions or comments. "Because I was promised to the Huang's son for marriage, my own family began treating me as if I belonged to someone else." (Tan 1989, p.45) Also, the parents of Chinese women think she will not be in their family except her husband, so parents always mistreated her daughter. "Of course I know the tree trunk lady...some Chinese say about girl babies being worthless...looked and smelled like a precious bun cake...." (Tan 1989, p.43-44) Lindo do not believe that not all Chinese gir
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Approximate Word count = 695
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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