Most relationships between a mother and a daughter have many ups and downs throughout life. The excerpts from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom by Amy Chua and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan are perfect examples of the arguments that can happen between a mother and daughter. In Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom the story is told from the mother’s point of view with a tone of annoyance at her daughter and in The Joy Luck Club the daughter has hostility towards her mother’s wants. In Amy Chua’s story she narrates the feud’s with her daughter over her violin playing. She is filled with annoyance because her daughter Lulu won’t relax when she is around. Chua’s presence alone even throws off Lulu, “my very presence made her edgy and irritable” by making her
