The Joy Luck Club is a novel written by Amy Tan. It was published in 1989 and was her first novel that she ever released. The novel tells the story of four immigrant women from China moving to the United States and their stories with their four American-born daughters. It is said to be partially inspired by her own relationships with her mother. This book is one of those books that seems like anyone can relate to it in some way. This book includes so many different themes and it hits them perfectly. At the beginning Jing-mei is asked by her father to be the fourth corner at the Mah-Jong table at the Joy Luck Club. She then begins to tell us the story of her mother (Suyuan); her journey coming to America and her story of how her mother and three others formed the Joy Luck Club.
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Clair, became best friends while also sometimes becoming worst enemies. Jing-mei seemed to be telling it as if her mom was telling the story so it felt similar to a flashback and she was just the narrator. Jing-mei began with her mother’s Kweilin story. Suyuan came up with the idea for the Joy Luck Club, a gathering of four women to fill out the Mah-Jong table. They were called crazy by the people of Kweilin because they were just eating and having fun while others around are starving and dying from the bombs. The way they thought about it was that just because others were going to give in a wait to die and be miserable, doesn’t mean that they also had to. They decided to make themselves happy and live out their lives to the fullest. They then go through each of the mothers; An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jung, and Ying-ying St. Clair, and tell their own stories of coming to America and what each of them went through and
Clair, became best friends while also sometimes becoming worst enemies. Jing-mei seemed to be telling it as if her mom was telling the story so it felt similar to a flashback and she was just the narrator. Jing-mei began with her mother’s Kweilin story. Suyuan came up with the idea for the Joy Luck Club, a gathering of four women to fill out the Mah-Jong table. They were called crazy by the people of Kweilin because they were just eating and having fun while others around are starving and dying from the bombs. The way they thought about it was that just because others were going to give in a wait to die and be miserable, doesn’t mean that they also had to. They decided to make themselves happy and live out their lives to the fullest. They then go through each of the mothers; An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jung, and Ying-ying St. Clair, and tell their own stories of coming to America and what each of them went through and