Lena St. Clair Fight Club Analysis

The misunderstanding and miscommunication between mother and daughter creates numerous cultural and generational differences. Both the St. Clair’s and Hsu’s are facing marriage problems, which was formed by American circumstances, which the daughters had learned (cultural difference). The Woo and Jong families are facing different issues. The marriage problems have been created by the views of the daughters. Both Rose Hsu Jordan and Lena St. Clair are facing marriage problems. These are caused by cultural differences between their mothers and themselves. Both mothers, Ying-ying and An-mei, had wanted their children to fix these issues, and early in their lives, the daughters were not taught their mother’s expectations, until they ran into …show more content…
The miscommunication between Suyuan and June (Jing-mei) had created a generational difference and a cultural difference, since June disliked that her mother was “forcing” her into playing the piano, after watching a television show. June’s opinion on her mother’s decisions for her future was in dislike because using what June learned, she resisted the order of her surperior. Most Americans or Americanized persons are persistent of resisting a surperior’s orders, unless it would cost them something valuable. June applied this resistance towards her mother, and led to dislike her mother, and not practice on the piano. On the Jong’s side, Waverly had started playing chess after her brother Winston kept the chess set. From there, Waverly quickly improved, and Lindo noticed, so she had signed her up for chess tournaments. Waverly eventually got her picture on the front of a TIME magazine. When Waverly finally noticed that her mother was using her to show off, Waverly resisted and stopped playing chess. The generational differences of these two characters, and their mothers, partially affected their adulthood, and therefore, these two events were minor