I chose to read the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, because I enjoy exploring and learning about different cultures and ways of life. Now that I have researched Tan, I have found that she extraordinarily uses her difficult life to create a novel that will inspire every reader to pursue difficult relationships with their families. Through her writing, Tan captures their attention with her own unique writing style to show the audience her life story. Amy Tan reflects her own troubled family relationships and immigration struggles of post World War II America in her novel The Joy Luck Club. Tense family relationships were experienced by Tan at different stages of her life. These unhealthy connections with her mother, father, and
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Jr. Watts). Tan’s mother used her translucent, “invisible strength”, in order to dominate Tan’s life with her overbearing presence which made dating extremely troublesome
(Thompson).
Tan depicts difficult relationships in the novel, The Joy Luck Club, through many different characters, paralleling situations of Tan’s life. The characters Jing-Mei and her mother,
Suyuan, mirror Tan’s own life experiences. For example, after Suyuan died, Jing-Mei realized she knew nothing about her mother’s life, making it harder for her to be a mother in the future since she was raised without a significant female role model (Thompson). Despite her mother’s death, Jing-Mei still learned about her mother from her aunts’ stories, consistently helping to strenghten the mother-daughter relationship (Tan). The fact that Jing-Mei’s mother was gone did not stop her wanting to learn more about her mother’s life and history in pre-communist China. In the novel, Jing-Mei and her father did not have a very strong relationship nor did her
“aunt” and husband. After Jing-Mei’s mother died from a brain tumor, her father became even more distant, always claiming that his wife had such big ideas in her mind that they “burst”
Jr. Watts). Tan’s mother used her translucent, “invisible strength”, in order to dominate Tan’s life with her overbearing presence which made dating extremely troublesome
(Thompson).
Tan depicts difficult relationships in the novel, The Joy Luck Club, through many different characters, paralleling situations of Tan’s life. The characters Jing-Mei and her mother,
Suyuan, mirror Tan’s own life experiences. For example, after Suyuan died, Jing-Mei realized she knew nothing about her mother’s life, making it harder for her to be a mother in the future since she was raised without a significant female role model (Thompson). Despite her mother’s death, Jing-Mei still learned about her mother from her aunts’ stories, consistently helping to strenghten the mother-daughter relationship (Tan). The fact that Jing-Mei’s mother was gone did not stop her wanting to learn more about her mother’s life and history in pre-communist China. In the novel, Jing-Mei and her father did not have a very strong relationship nor did her
“aunt” and husband. After Jing-Mei’s mother died from a brain tumor, her father became even more distant, always claiming that his wife had such big ideas in her mind that they “burst”