er she is controlling if not somewhat possessive, she only wishes the best of both worlds for her daughter, American and Chinese. D. Waverly Place Jong. Waverly's character is intelligent, calculating yet fragile. She could outsmart any chess opponent and stubbornly believed it was all her merit yet the instant her mother no longer demonstrated how proud she made her, she became weak. Independence from her mothers 'feelings and actions seems to be her largest desire but she can't, and maybe she shouldn't fight so hard and realize her mother is not her opponent. E. Ying-Yin St. Clair. Ying-Yin is a dismal character. Scared from her first marriage, empty because her spirit, her joy has fled her body. She waits to give her daughter what she's lacked all her life, what she could not give her, a spirit. F. Lena St. Clair. Her blood is half American half Chinese; she embodies what all these young ladies feel. Inside she has fears regarding her mothers' fears. She is malleable, insecure; she bends to others impositions such as her husbands' "half and half" policy. III) Settings A. United States (San Francisco). In The Joy Luck Club the US is a land where four Chinese raise daughters that are American and only externally resemble China. It is a place where hopes and dreams are planted only to be nourished by even more hopes. B. China. This place is the past, ancient yet present in tradition. Where women are taught generation after generation, rich or poor, their place is that of an obedient daughter or wife. Bear many sons to honor your family, oppress any desire you heart may have to soar, accept your fate in silence... Swallow your tears. IV) Summery The Joy Luck Club is a novel telling the stories trails and tribulations of four women and their daughters united by Joy luck. Joy Luck is a game the late Suyuan thought up back in China in order to make a terrifying time of war more bearable. June, Suyuan's daughter, will take her place at the board now that she's gone. Throughout the book each daughter and each mother tell their tale, their worries, and their hopes. An-mei whose mother gave her power in a home where she was but another concubine by killing herself has made her strong. She even lost a child to ocean and with him her faith. She chose her mother over her other family, because despite how shameful they said she was, she needed her. Her daughter Rose is getting divorced from a man she gave everything to for more than 15 years. She lived for him, believed his every decision and gave him the power he always wanted, until one day even that wasn't enough and he left her. However because of it she's found her voice and can now scream and be strong. There is Lindo, a women who was betrothed at the age of two and married at almost twelve to a boy she did not now. Luck helped Lindo make up a story about a mole on her husbands back. She claimed the gods where angry the matchmaker had made a wrong match; the boy's true wife was the pregnant servant girl, already c

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