Amy tan's vision of an ideal women differs from the two different time periods, in the first story involving June, she depicts an ideal women of that time period as being independent and relying on herself, but as in the case of the other stories the children had lots of respect for their parents and did exactly as their parents told them to do. In June's case she did have lots of respect for her parents but not as much as An-Mei and Lindo Jong. For example on page 14 she is explaining her arrival at the Hsus's house for the Joy Luck Club meeting, she is disrespecting her elders by showing up to the meeting late and interrupting by the way her father draws attention to her. In my family if I were to interrupt an important meeting at my house by walking in and having drawn all the attention to my self, I would definitely get a good slap in the face by my mom or at least get yelled at for a couple of hours. Because in my household it is very disrespectful to interrupt your elders, and in this case it creates a bad name for the family.
             In discussing the second time period in the stories told by An-Mei and Lindo Jong it seems that the women in that time had much more respect for their elders. But these women were still children with much respect for their elders. Unlike June she was not disrespecting her elders in a big way but still not showing the respect a thirty-six year old women should be giving in a minority family. As an-Mei described in her story she showed much respect to her elders even though she and her brother were treated like garbage by her aunt and even her grandmother. One example of their foul treatment by their family is when an-Mei's brother is pushed against the fence of their house by his own aunt and is spat in the face and told that he is worthless and that they both are a waste of skin. Besides all of the abuse they took from their family the big mistreatment was when Popo told an-Mei th
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