A mother is someone a child can depend on for anything regardless of the extremity. Likewise, a daughter should be able to depend on her mother to provide her with support in establishing their identity. In the stories told in The Joy Luck Club, Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-yang St. Clair, four Chinese born mothers with Chinese-American daughters, display the importance of having a strong family, particularly those growing up with entirely different cultures. These stories exemplify how a feeling of security, support, and community can lead to an individual's prosperity regardless of any barriers. Amy Tan's constant use of the motif of sacrifice due to love exemplifies a mother's willingness to give up anything
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Regardless of these hardships, these women strongly display resilience through their persistence in creating a brighter future not only for themselves but for their children as well. Tan stresses the fact that having a strong family basis is extremely influential on the path an individual takes as exemplified by all four of the families in the novel. As mentioned by Michael Magali Cornier in Choosing Hope and Remaking Kinship: Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, “Tan's novel (illustrates) the interdependence of the individual and the community and thus the communal aspects of agency…the novel takes the form of… dialogue with and depend on each other on the basis of spatial proximity and that together present a whole that is greater than its parts but that nevertheless depends on those parts… the San Francisco Joy Luck Club--created by the mothers but also experienced by the daughters--serves as a model for the innovative form of individual agency dependent on community that the novel offers… humans are clearly "interdependent beings," given that "all humans need care"--which she defines as encompassing "attentiveness, responsibility, nurturance, compassion, meeting others' needs"--at various points in their lives. Consequently, care not only is "a central but
Regardless of these hardships, these women strongly display resilience through their persistence in creating a brighter future not only for themselves but for their children as well. Tan stresses the fact that having a strong family basis is extremely influential on the path an individual takes as exemplified by all four of the families in the novel. As mentioned by Michael Magali Cornier in Choosing Hope and Remaking Kinship: Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, “Tan's novel (illustrates) the interdependence of the individual and the community and thus the communal aspects of agency…the novel takes the form of… dialogue with and depend on each other on the basis of spatial proximity and that together present a whole that is greater than its parts but that nevertheless depends on those parts… the San Francisco Joy Luck Club--created by the mothers but also experienced by the daughters--serves as a model for the innovative form of individual agency dependent on community that the novel offers… humans are clearly "interdependent beings," given that "all humans need care"--which she defines as encompassing "attentiveness, responsibility, nurturance, compassion, meeting others' needs"--at various points in their lives. Consequently, care not only is "a central but