Many books, such as Pride and Prejudice and A Midsummer Night's Dream depict the different layers of relationships and marriage: the good, the bad and the ugly. The novel The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, is no different. This novel describes the life of four pairs of Chinese immigrant mothers and American-born daughters, and their different struggles, ranging from the clash of cultures to adaptation to the american society and, in many cases, marriage itself. Most of the women in the story have, in some point or another, problems with their husbands or lovers. Both Ying-ying St. Clair and her daughter, Lena, face similar problems in their respective relationships. And although time have changed since the time Ying-ying married, the core struggle of miscommunication is always present of both of this woman’s love life. It ironic yet expected to see that Ying-ying and Rose have mirroring marriages. Both of the St. Clair women display one characteristic that leads off to the miscommunication problems: their submissive
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However, once again, they decide to stay quite as they see this their tragic events in their marriages unfold before their eyes. One can see this when Ying-ying is able to see all the signs leading to her husband’s end, yet isn't able to find a way to prevent it: And just after my father died last year, she said she knew this would happen. Be cause a philodendron plant my father had given her had withered and died, despite the fact that she had watered it faithfully. She said the plant had damaged its roots and no water could get to it. The autopsy report she later received showed that my father had 90% blockage of the arteries before he died of a heart attack at the age of 74. My father was not Chinese like my mother but English-Irish American who enjoyed his five slices of bacon and three eggs sunny side up every
However, once again, they decide to stay quite as they see this their tragic events in their marriages unfold before their eyes. One can see this when Ying-ying is able to see all the signs leading to her husband’s end, yet isn't able to find a way to prevent it: And just after my father died last year, she said she knew this would happen. Be cause a philodendron plant my father had given her had withered and died, despite the fact that she had watered it faithfully. She said the plant had damaged its roots and no water could get to it. The autopsy report she later received showed that my father had 90% blockage of the arteries before he died of a heart attack at the age of 74. My father was not Chinese like my mother but English-Irish American who enjoyed his five slices of bacon and three eggs sunny side up every