A Motherly Role-The Joy Luck Club
A reoccurring theme in Amy Tan’s novels is mother-daughter relationships. In each of her three novels she represents different roles of the mother and the effects of each; The Joy Luck Club depicts mothers living through daughters, The Kitchen God’s Wife portrays mother teaching daughter through past experience, and finally The Hundred Secret Senses displays non-existence of the mother in the relationship. This excerpt from The Joy Luck Club shows what kinds of things, from real accomplishments to the uncontrollable features of nature. “Auntie Lin and my mother were both best friends and arch-enemies who spent a lifetime comparing their children. I was one month older than Waverly Jong, Auntie Lin’s prized daughter. From the time we were babies, our mothers compared the creases in our belly buttons, how shapely our earlobes were, how fast we healed after we scraped our knees, how thick and dark our hair was, how many shoes we wore out in one year, and later, how smart Waverly was at playing chess, how many trophies she had won last month, how many cites she had visited” (27). Jing-Mei, the piano player in The Joy Luck Club, felt the most pressure from her mother, because her mother had to follo
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Waverly Jing-Mei, Auntie Lindo, Mom Kwan, Luck Club, Gods Wife, Questions Jing-Mei, Pearl Winnies, Kwan Olivias, Auntie Lins, Fu Winnie, mother daughter, joy luck, joy luck club, luck club, mother mother, kitchen gods wife, kitchen gods, olivias mother, success stories, hundred secret, gods wife, strong woman, hundred secret senses,
Approximate Word count = 1731
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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