Compare And Contrast The Joy Luck Club

“Four Directions” is the story of Waverly Jong, the young prodigy chess player who lashes out at her mother because of her constant showing off of Waverly. After returning to chess, Waverly realizes that her skill and determination is gone, along with the support and love from her mother. She beings to understand that her winning was solely dependant on her mother’s boastful remarks about her daughter, the love the Lindo was so openly expressing.

In Amy Tan’s story “The Joy Luck Club,” Jing-mei recalls the struggles she is burdened by in not understanding the extensive sacrifices her mother made and the guilt she carries of never living to be her mother’s swan.

After overcoming the challenges that Huang Taitai and others put in the way of Lindo, Lindo is able to move to America and live a new life where she poured love and affection into her daughter, Waverly. Realizing that Waverly would never understand the sacrifices of happiness that her mother had to make in order to keep her family’s honor, Lindo did very little in order to teach Waverly this sense of honor. Lindo gave Waverly her slice of freedom to help her the most out of her life and to prevent Waverly from doing what her mother had to do. This makes Lindo Jong a perfect example of what Joseph Campbell classifies as a

A mother daughter relationship is one of the strongest bonds one can experience. In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club There are multiple stories showcasing this reoccurring theme. Waverly and June both experience hardships with their mothers, but through the ups and downs they work through their problems. The contrast of their cultures can cause a halt in their relationship. Although they struggle communicating, June and Waverly connect with their mothers because they adapt their character. Once the daughters except their mothers culture and priorities, there mother daughter relationship will grow and become stronger. Throughout the book recurring mother - daughter conflicts make clear that Waverly, June and Ann mei, adapt pieces of their mothers

In the novel, “The Joy Luck Club”, the moms make many decisions that they think are best but aren’t very favored by the children, especially their daughters. Much like an article called, “A heartache of an immigrant family”, Where it talks of a family that was constantly torn because one mother decided it’d be best if she left her children for

In “Double Face” Lindo inform us that her daughter Waverly Jong is getting married for the second time. We witness their relationship as Lindo and Waverly prepare for the wedding as well as the honeymoon in China. Also, Lindo gave detailed account about what brought her to China, the Path to becoming an American citizen, how she met An-Mei and Waverly’s father. “Double Face” goes deeper in the complexity of being Chinese- American identity is a major role in the story. Lindo mother always talks about her physical features she feels Waverly isn’t proud of her because of those Chinese features. But, Lindo also doesn’t feel her daughter is Chinese enough. The climax arises when Lindo sees her daughter “crooked” nose in the mirror she tells her

By ignoring their mothers, these daughters do not see the similarities between themselves and their mothers, for their mothers have also rejected Chinese traditions, particularly those that repress women. After witnessing her mother's tragic fate, An-Mei has come to America determined to raise her children to have choices. Lindo's early arranged Chinese marriage has taught her to value America where "nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you" (254). Jing-mei's mother "believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America" (132). Ying-ying belatedly realizes that her lifetime of keeping her mouth closed "so selfish desires would not fall out" (67) has meant that she has lost herself. In all four cases, it is when the daughters recognize these similarities that they start to understand not only their mothers, but also themselves.

“They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds “joy luck” is not a word, it does not exist” (Tan 41). In the novel The Joy Luck Club all of the problems that narrators have with their mothers are caused by the fact that they do not completely understand one another’s thoughts. This is most evidently shown with Jing-Mei Woo’s struggle with her mom about her desire and push to make Jing a prodigy, Lena St. Clair’s inability to understand what her mother was trying to say, and Waverly Jong’s not understand why her mother was so active in her chess career.

The Joy Luck Club In the novel, “The Joy Luck Club”, Amy Tan uses rivalry to reflect values and success. The different cultural views in this novel help to show how there is a battle between living as an American and having parents of a Chinese background. One example is the struggle for Waverly Jong and June Woo. Through the presumption of their mothers’ view of “happiness”, the two become indulged in a back and forth competition that consequently, dominates their lives’.

Inside – she is all American-made.” (Tan 254). Indicating now that Waverly wishes to be diverse and accept her heritage, though since she has been neglecting it her whole life she can never truly embrace it. Lindo can notice this and wishes that she could've prevented this. Lindo sees the dilemma that has occurred “I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character.

In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, the author, Amy Tan, intricately weaves together the roles and experiences of Chinese mothers with their American born daughters. During a time of war, the mothers flee from China to America, leaving behind a past filled with secrets that unravel as their daughters mature. While sharing their difficulties, these mothers must be able to teach Chinese beliefs and customs to their daughters in a way that relates to American society. However, this is difficult because the daughters seek to identify themselves with their own American culture. A lack of understanding and knowledge amongst these societies exists between the mothers and

    Throughout the novel, The Joy Luck Club, author Amy Tan explores the issues of  tradition and change and the impact they have on the bond between mothers and daughters. The theme is developed through eight women that tell their separate stories, which meld into four pairs of mother-daughter relationships.

When she was a child in China, Lindo learned to harvest the powers of “invisible strength” to help her get out of her arranged marriage. This “invisible strength” helps Lindo keep a strong face even in desperate situations. By being silent and observe things closely, she is able to win arguments and earn the respect of people. Lindo first utilized this strength through the use of superstition; she was able to fool her mother-in-law at that time to force he way out of her miserable marriage. Not only that, she was able to keep her dignity intact and not disgrace or disrespect her family in

Throughout her novel, Tan exploits the aspects of fragmentation, to explore the novel’s search for identity, while highlighting differences between the cultures of America and China. When comparing China to America, arranged marriages were common practice especially for families to rise in power or money; in contrast, this practice is absent in American culture. Those affected by this practice, felt unhappy with their loveless marriages because they were unable to make their own decisions. Before Lindo Jong had moved to America, she found herself in this similar

The connection between a mother and daughter constructs a bond like no other but can also cause many conflicts to arise in families. Throughout The Joy Luck Club, the four pairs of mothers and daughters share stories from their life through vignettes. Out of the four pairs of mothers and daughters, Lindo and Waverly had the most conflicts. The duo clashed, and other times they saw eye to eye. The Joy Luck Club mother-daughter duo, Lindo and Waverly Jong can be compared and contrasted through their upbringings, marriages, and personalities.