Mother-Daughter relationships are very delicate, one false move by either mother or daughter, and the relationship could be ruined. The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, a novel of vignettes of past memories, explores the lives of eight women - four mothers and their daughters. Each woman reveals her tragedies and hardships in life, and with each other. The stories involve the cultural differences between the Chinese and Americans, and the large generation gap that divides the mother-daughter relationships. The relationship between the two generations is struggling, and without an understanding, it will be broken. The presence of the four elements brings unconscious healing of the daughters' relationships with their culture and mothers.
             Earth, the nurturing of life, is one of the key elements in The Joy Luck Club. In the Virtual Library, Dan Bowers stated, "The mothers watch as their daughters grow, feeling the desire to protect them, to teach them (1)." The mothers want to help and nurture their daughters, but the daughters are so distant, in culture and age, it is hard for the mothers to relate to their offspring. For example, when Suyuan Woo pushed her daughter June to be a pianist, Suyuan simply wanted June to excel at something and to go somewhere. Suyuan invited all of her friends from the Joy Luck Club to June's piano recital, and June failed miserably. June told her mother..."You want me to be someone I'm not, I wish I was never your daughter (Joy Luck 155)." For the following years, Suyuan let June do whatever she wanted, never telling her what to do, and June noticed this. "What June yearned for was to lead an independent, modern and American life (CLC 92)," which she received. June missed her mother's nurturing, and because of this neglect, June failed many times, and even dropped out of college. After Suyuan's death and the meeting of her newly found half-sisters, June looked back to when her mother kept pushing her to...