The Joy Luck Club

Mother-Daughter relationships are very delicate, one false move by either mother or daughter, and the relationship could be ruined. The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, a novel of vignettes of past memories, explores the lives of eight women - four mothers and their daughetrs. Each woman reveals her tragedies and hardships in life, and with each other. The stories involve the culture differences between the Chinese and Americans, and the large generation gap that divides the mother-daughter relationships. The relationship between the two generations is struggling, and without an understanding it will be broken. The presnce of the ofur elements bring an unconcious healing of the daughters' relationships with their culture and mothers.

Earth, the nurturing of life, is one of the key elements in The Joy Luck Club. In the Virtual Library, Dan Bowers stated, "The mothers watch as their daughters grow, feeling the desire to protect them, to teach them (1)." The mothers want to help and nurture their daughters, but the daughters are so distant, in culture and age, it is hard for the mothers to relate to their offspring. For example, when Suyuan Woo pushed her daughter June to

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Approximate Word count = 2396
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)