When it comes to families, establishing strong, healthy family relationships is crucial because it is important that family members express love and other emotions to each other. However, conflicts will occur, which can prevent family bonding. The novel, “The Joy Luck Club”, written by Amy Tan, it exhibits various mother-daughter conflicts. The Woo family is an example of a mother-daughter conflict in which, Suyuan Woo, the mother, enforces her daughter, June, to become a prodigy and refuses to see her capabilities, which leads to June feeling as a disappointment in her mother’s eyes, and believes that Suyuan does not care for her.
As Suyuan Woo enforces June to become a prodigy and refuses to see June’s potential, it leads to a major argument between the two, which changed their relationship. An example of June being forces by her mother to become someone that she was not was the when June wanted to quit playing the …show more content…
An example would be the time when June was convinced that she had to be genius for her mother, however, Suyuan slapped her and said “Only ask you be your best” (Tan, 136). This shows that all of those years of June believing that her mother did no care for her was a misconception, and Suyuan’s intention was to give June a chance to become an independent person and to see her capablities. However, Suyuan did not tell June her purpose until she was an adult, which inhibited June from believing in herself, which was a result of her assuming that her mother did not support her in anything she accomplished. The mother-daughter conflict was carried throughout of June’s life and was not resolved until June’s adulthood. Suyuan and June Woo may had a complicated relationship, but, all in all, they both still love each other under any
As Suyuan Woo enforces June to become a prodigy and refuses to see June’s potential, it leads to a major argument between the two, which changed their relationship. An example of June being forces by her mother to become someone that she was not was the when June wanted to quit playing the …show more content…
An example would be the time when June was convinced that she had to be genius for her mother, however, Suyuan slapped her and said “Only ask you be your best” (Tan, 136). This shows that all of those years of June believing that her mother did no care for her was a misconception, and Suyuan’s intention was to give June a chance to become an independent person and to see her capablities. However, Suyuan did not tell June her purpose until she was an adult, which inhibited June from believing in herself, which was a result of her assuming that her mother did not support her in anything she accomplished. The mother-daughter conflict was carried throughout of June’s life and was not resolved until June’s adulthood. Suyuan and June Woo may had a complicated relationship, but, all in all, they both still love each other under any