Mother Daughter Relationships - Family Relations in Amy Tans The Joy L

Family Relations in The Joy Luck Club sensation passage, from the novel The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, reveals the complex transaction and emotions that be involved in families. This passage concerns the story of four Chinese women and their daughters. The author leads the reader through the experiences of the mothers as they left mainland China and came to America. The daughters harbour been raised in America, as Ameri terminates. This is what the mothers had wanted although it also causes them great distress. This is illustrated in the passage I hold chosen. My daughter wanted to go to China for her second honeymoon, but now she is afraid. What if I blend in so well they think Im one of them? Waverly asked me. What if they taket let me come back to the United States? When you go to China, I told her, you dont even need to open your m forbiddenh. They already know you are an outsider. What are you talking about? she asked. My daughter likes to speak back. She lik es to question what I say. Aii-ya, I said. Even if you put on their clothes, even if you take mould your makeup and hide your fancy jewelry, they know. They know just watching the expression you walk, the way you carry your face. They know you do non belong. My daughter did not look pleased when I told her this, that she didnt look Chinese. She had a sour American look on her face. Oh, maybe ten years ago, she would have clapped her hands - hurray - as if this were good news. But now she wants to be Chinese, it is so fashionable. And I know it is too late. All those years I seek to teach her She followed my Chinese ways only until she learned how to walk out the door by herself and go to school. So now the only Chinese ... ...mes, for all members, but it is also a support network that can be beneficial for everyone. I think that as the daughters got older they established more and more how important family is, even though it can be a source of frustration at times. Works C ited and Consulted Feng, Pin-chia. Amy Tan. Dictionary of literary Biography. Volume 173 American Novelists since World War II. Fifth Series. Gale Reseach, 1996 281 -289. Heung, Marina. Daughter-Text/Mother-Text Matrilineage in Amy Tans Joy Luck Club. Feminist Studies. Fall 1993 597 - 613. Schell, Orville. Your Mother is in Your Bones. The tender York Times Book Review. 19 March 1989 3,28. Seaman, Donna, Amy Tan. The Booklist Interview Amy Tan. Booklist. I October 19%. 256,257. Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. Vintage Contemporaries. New York A Division of ergodic House, Inc., 1991.