Waverly In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

It could be argued that Waverly is displaying a certain kind of humility here by asking her mother not to “show off,” but if so, it’s certainly not the kind of humility the Chinese in the story value. In every other example of it, the Chinese characters have displayed respect for the feelings of others above their own, whether in graciously accepting bad gifts, downplaying personal success, or celebrating the success of others. That’s clearly not the case here. Waverly is putting herself first. She’s also denying her mother’s pride in their association, challenging the values of family and community. For Waverly, pride is reserved only for the individual who achieves something, not for the community that supports and enables it. All of this

This song would play as Jing-Mei “June” Woo’s mother, Suyuan Woo, would make Jing-Mei try different things to see if there is something she is automatically good at. In the book Suyuan is certain her daughter has an unknown talent just waiting to be found for her to be discovered as a prodigy at something. She first tries making June a “Chinese Shirley Temple” putting curls in her hair and making her sing and dance. Next, they tried math, card tricks, head stands and then even predictions. June was not successful at any of them. As each day went by, over time the mom’s confidence decreased that her daughter would discover this hidden expert talent. June got frustrated at having to try all these different things that she wasn’t interested in.

She feels as though all is lost when she dishonors her family and her culture. She understands the shame her parents are feeling, and understands that she needs to feel it too. While Waverly has a negative relationship with her Chinese culture, June understands and agrees with her

In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan tells the story of four Chinese mothers and their American daughters. Throughout the book, Tan talks about the mothers and the life they had in china, the relationship between their mothers, and why they moved to America. She also writes about the daughters who were born and raised in America and their relationship with their mothers. In addition, she talks about the cultural differences between the Chinese mothers and the Chinese-American daughters. Joy Luck Club is one of the best books in showing examples of the differences in Chinese and American culture. Three examples of this that are shown in the book are collectivism versus individualism, humility against self-promotion, and internalizing emotion compared to expressing emotion.

I think to myself what if I had a fight with my mother? What if, the fight, I was in trouble? What would I do? After the chapter “ Rules of the Game ”, I think that I have a good idea on what Waverly will do next.

Paul Eitler, friend, said: Tyler has a leadership attitude who also knows how to communicate with others.

The only sound was the crash of the waves on the beach. The water stained the sand red and left behind pieces of once massive ships and the bodies that kept those ships in perfect shape.

The next example of dynamics relationship between mother and daughter is almost at the end of the story when Waverly's mother forces her to the market on Saturday so she can constantly brag that Waverly is her daughter. This really embarrassed Waverly. She got so angry at her mother and told her that she wished that she would stop telling everyone Waverly is her daughter. Then she and her mother got into an argument, and Waverly ran away from her mother.

Lena, one of the characters in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, works in her husband’s thematic restaurant design architecture firm. When Harold, her husband, leaves his job at another architecture firm, Lena assures him he can create an innovative business, and gives him ideas that provide the foundation for his firm. Lena’s story relates to the article "Occupy Le Corbusier: will a silent majority rise against architecture's elite?” by David Brussat. Brussat laments about the minority control in architecture “whose tastes are diametrically opposed to those of the public.” These “partisans of modern ugliness” build modern architecture which is harmful for the environment and appalled by the public. This article provides an opposition to Lena’s

She fights for his attention and acceptance throughout the story. This makes her turn weaker and weaker until the point where she does not care anymore and accepts the fact that she is a woman and consequently, inferior.

Some of our great grandparents witnessed the great depression and the bombing of Pearl Harbor; Our grandparents lived through the space race, the Vietnam War, and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.; even our own parents experienced the end of the cold war, and the terror attack on 9/11. But how does this relate to you? Your ancestors’ experiences shaped their identity and their beliefs, which in turn has shaped you.

In Amy Tan’s “The Joy Luck Club,” Waverly commences by devoting her life to uncovering her mother’s “tricks,” only to later perceive that Lindo is not a rival after all. Rather, Lindo is a frail woman whose principal aspirations are shielding and loving her child, even if she expresses these sentiments in an unusual manner. Upon abandoning chess, a game Waverly had done extraordinarily well in, she awaits for her mother to crawl back to her, pleading her to pursue chess. Yet, her aforementioned “wish” fails to transpire. Consequently, Waverly realizes that her mother “knew more tricks than [she] had thought” (171). The phrase “more [...] than I had thought” conveys how she did not predict that this type of silent

I believe that Melinda was influenced by the drinking she did that night. Alcohol has a tendency to give people the courage to do things that they would normally never do. Melinda was a shy and quiet girl at the beginning of the movie. After she did not drink enough to be drunk, she was still kind of herself. The alcohol made her loosen up a bit,which made her do things outside of her comfort zone.

“Here is how I came to love my mother.  How I saw her my own true nature.  What was beneath my skin.  Inside my bones.” (Tan 40)

In the movie, the Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, we see many examples of the challenges of intercultural translations. The movie portrays cultural conflict between Chinese culture and the American culture as portrayed by the lives of four mothers and their daughters. The mothers were born and raised in China, adopting the high-content Chinese culture, while their daughters, born and raised in America, adopted the low-context American