As once said by Marcus Garvey, “a people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”, which beautifully expresses what the characters of this novel come to realize. Two constantly opposing forces are currently undergoing a tug of war in Chinese immigrant families between parents who fled their homelands looking for a better life and the assimilated, Americanized daughters born and raised in the United States. This stark contrast of perspectives, customs, beliefs and practices between mothers and daughters, especially implicated in the novel, co-exist in both greater overlying issues and meager, small-scaled complications and misunderstandings. The novel Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan gives a deeper
