Mother Daughter Relationships - Learning from Mother in Amy Tans The J

Learning from Mother in The Joy Luck Club I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worst possible thing (Amy Tan 121). Throughout The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan tells stories of how mothers use the misfortunes in their lives, to try to discover their daughters about life. Many of the mothers had bad experiences in their pasts and do not want to see their daughters live with the same types of problems. They try to make their daughters lives as flaccid and problem free as possible. However, the daughters do not see this as an act of love, exclusively rather as an act of control. In the end, the daughters realize that their mothers essay to use their experiences to teach them not to give up hope, and to look at the good of an experience rather than the bad. Amy Tan starts The Joy Luck Club with the daughter, Jing-mei, and mother, Suyuan Woo. Suyuan lived through a problematic life in Kweilin during the war and teaches her daughter to keep her head up and have faith, even though things may seem hard at the time. When Suyuan lived in Kweilin, she had many things that could depress her, but to despair was to indirect request back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable (11). Suyuans wishful thought reveals that she did not want to think of all the bad things happening around her. Rather, she wanted to focus on the fact that she had luxuries few people could afford (10). The tycoon to find the good when others see only bad helped Suyuan center her attention on the superior things that she had, such as the Joy Luck Club and her friends. Later, when Jing-mei goes to come across her sisters in China, she becomes so nervous she cant even feel her feet(331). The uneasy emo... ...to keep trying. Although Rose believes that she has no hope, inside she has a nengkan as powerful as her mothers, which makes her wish her marriage would last, just as her mother wishes Bing would still be alive. Overall, each mother in The Joy Luck Club went through something emotionally tucker and saddening in her life. The mothers use their experiences to try to direct the course of their daughters lives, to make them simpler and more carefree. Initially, however, the daughters only see that their mothers want to make decisions for them, not to help them. Ultimately, the daughters realize their mothers intentions, but not all accept them. The important thing, however, is that each daughter learns a valuable lesson and comes to peace with her mother. Work Cited Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. New York Ivy Books, 1989.