Writing Style In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

If you are interested into books that smoothly going step by step through the plot, “The Joy Luck Club” is possibly not your favorite book style. At the beginning, Amy Tan’s writing style seems like disconnected and even a little confusion. But when keep on reading, you might realize that is one of the beautiful things about this book. It's not going to give you a single story that goes straightforward from the beginning to the end. Instead, the novel is about performing the experience of a community of people, which is best achieved through Amy Tan’s remarkable writing style. Since the book is really a series of stories, I realize that the exposition is not consolidated by time, place, or character. Instead, most of the book fill …show more content…
After that, the writer uses a series of flashbacks beautifully back to the beginning, when Jing –Mei was told about the secrets and stories of her mother together with her long-last wish. Then the story finally moves forward to the end as Jing –Mei decided to take her trip to China to fulfill her mother’s long-last wish. Personally, I assume that Amy Tan is so smart as making this organizational choices because she did not want to tell the whole story as it is often boring, taking too much time and having unnecessary details. In the contrary, by her remarkable writing style, Amy Tan let the readers feel the story rush in a stream of memories, as if its characters have been cherished their stories for years, waiting for the precise moment to share them. That moment arises exactly after a death and a reunion that bring the past back in all of its power, and show how the present is affected - how children who think they are so very different are deeply affected by the experiences of their parents. Though “The Joy Luck Club” does not use much of foreshadowing, however, the characters are mother-daughter pairs so tons of the challenges which were faced by the mothers come to