Comparing The Mothers And Daughters In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

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The Joy Luck Club is written by Amy Tan, It’s about four Chinese mothers, who came to America when they were young and them growing up surviving living in america to later raise their daughters in the United States. The mothers created were all in the same club, that's where they had met they talked about their own lives, played a Chinese games, and ate food. All of theses 4 stories about their childhood in China are both sad but inspiring.
The four moms are very old-fashioned wisdom, however, their daughters lives are more in new times and involve obstacles their mothers never expected to happen. They have different outlooks on the world. The mothers and daughters often don't see eye-to-eye throughout the novel, but there is a strong connection

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