The Joy Luck Club
The mother-daughter relationships inMother-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 daughetrs. Each woman reveals her tragedies and hardships in life, and with each other. The stories involve the culture 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 presnce of the ofur elements bring an unconcious 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
Waverly got upset at her mother, because Waverly thought her mother was using her to show off. The daughters come to an understanding of their mothers' words after they have failed and they realize their mother was right all along. New York: Salem press, 1996: 303-304. "June does not understand or even fully know her mother because she does not know about her tragic past and the pain she still feels from the memory of it (nslsilus 1). Waverly feels unaccepted by her mother, and Lena suffers an eating disorder and an emotionally abusive husband (Dialogics 2). June saw who she was at that time, and she was no one. org/centers/educational/libraryweb/index. As water can both destroy and purify, so can fire, which is seen mostly in the generation gaps and the culture differences. This realization of the daughters happened too late, after three of them had divorced and had similar experiences with their mothers marriages. As the mothers tell their daughters of their lives in China, the daughters see their mothers' tragedies and start to fear their Chinese culture, pushing it away.
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