In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, four of the main characters have a secret in their past that haunt them constantly. Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair all have terribly bad experiences in China. These women try to escape their past by moving to America, but their memories still disturb them .Not only does it plague their own minds, but it also affected their daughters' lives and the way they were raised. Each of these women experienced terrible events in their lives that effected them and the following generation.
             Suyuan Woo has one main focus in her life, to find her two lost baby daughters in China. "Your mother was a very strong woman, a good mother.....and that's why you can understand why a mother like this could never forget her other daughters. She knew they were alive and before she died she wanted to find her daughters in China" (Tan 29). Everyday she felt guilty for abandoning these two helpless children and desperately tried to find them in everyway possible. June Woo, Suyuan's daughter, was also affected by this constant search. When her mother dies, June goes to China to find her long lost sisters. June says " I look at their faces again and I see no trace of my mother in them... and now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is our blood. After all theses years, it can finally be let go" (331). This event in June's life helps her find her true Chinese identity and solve the mystery that plagued her and her mother's life for so long.
             An-mei's childhood consisted of her father's death, her mother's disappearance, and her mother's rape followed by her mother's suicide. The suicide was supposed to give An-mei freedom and make her strong. Before her mother dies, An-mei tells her mother with her heart, "I can see the truth, too. I am strong, too" (271). She realizes that...