Amidst the different vignettes that appear throughout The Joy Luck Club, one of the more seemly-emphasized dealings is that of Jing-Mei's connection with her mother, Suyuan Woo.
             In the beginning of the novel, Jing-Mei, first shows the reader her fears of not being able to ever identify a connection with her mother by stating, "What can I tell them about my mother? I don't know anything..." This statement was probably meant to concur with her misunderstanding of how she could possibly replace her mother adequately enough to be an actual piece in her mother's tradition of the Joy Luck Club. Jing-Mei does have an idea of her mother's general history, and describes to the reader the roots from which " Joy Luck" took life, but with the statement of "I never thought my mother's Kweilin story was anything but a Chinese fairy tale," Jing-Mei shows a side of wonder of too what really happened throughout her late mother's lifetime. A lack of a connection with that of her mother may be held somewhat accountable from an instance to which Jing-Mei describes a conversation with her mother about criticism: "...People rise to other people's expectations. And when you criticize, it just means you're expecting failure.'
             'That's the trouble, ...you never rise"
             This type of dialogue may show more of a confusing state of affairs, as Jing-Mei does not understand her mother's past attitude or actions in her childhood and wishes to show her mother her way of thinking now. The result of this seems to be uneasiness aroused with the two, which is followed throughout the remainder of the text.
             Upon observing a vignette into Jing-Mei's childhood the reader finds that Suyuan labored a great deal in search of a prodigy in her daughter that could be managed, one could say, by her mother, hence a connection in future goals in Jing-Mei's life, and ...