The lyrics of the Beatles’ ‘’Long and Winding Road’’ is the perfect metaphor for the chapter that ends the Joy Luck Club. This can be seen on two levels. The Joy Luck Club book begins with Suyuan Woo and, in a way, it ends with Suyuan Woo albeit in the person of the daughter Jing-Mei. The road followed by the members of the Joy Luck Club has taken them from China to America and now in the person of Jing-Mei the road has led them back again. On another level, the ‘’Long and Winding Road’’ becomes the metaphor that re-establishes the mother-daughter relationship which has been fractured in virtually every story since the beginning of the book. The final chapter of the book starts with Jing-Mei, sitting on a train from Hong Kong into China,
