Daughters

Within in the realm of Southern Belles and Southern womanhood lies a complex relationship, the one between mothers and daughters. While the difficulty of the mother-daughter dynamic is not exclusive to the South, the rules of Southern Bell-like behavior creates added drama and expectations as two generations of women struggle with the social etiquette of their time, and their hopes for the future. Three movies that capture this bond and all that it implies are Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya…

The daughter had to practice the piano every day for two hours. She found out that her piano teacher was deaf, so she used that as advantage to keep making mistakes while playing. She participated in a talent show and her mother invited all her close friends. She performed a piece called the “Pleading Child”, but only her deaf teacher applauded. Even after the daughter embarrassed her parents at the talent show the mother still expected her to practice. However, the daughter rebels by refusing…

herself into both and present clear definitions between the two, exemplified in The Joy Luck Club, written to reflect her journey transitioning cultures. Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club incorporates symbolism, narrative structure, characterization of mother daughter relationship, and linguistic differences in order to emphasize the disparity between the Chinese mothers and American…

and relationships. The reader may see these instructions as demanding, but these are a mother’s attempt, out of care for the daughter, to help the daughter to grow up properly. The daughter does not appear to have yet reached adolescence, however, her mother believes that her current behavior will lead her to a life of promiscuity. The mother postulates that her daughter can be saved from a life of promiscuity and ruin by having domestic knowledge that would, in turn also, empower her as a…

written by Jamaica Kincaid. The story focuses on a mother instructing and counseling her young daughter through short consistent sentences. Throughout the story, the mother constantly demands while the young girl only speaks out twice. After analyzing the short story “Girl”, it has been observed that the main character, the mother, holds a sense of motivation for her wisdom and instruction towards her daughter. According to the textbook Literature Craft & Voice, the definition of motivation is…

and are in twisted perspective. In addition, the daughters are displayed in twisted perspective for readability of the story. The older daughter is standing up on a specific ground line with Akhenaten’s hand placed on her shoulder. While the younger daughter is supported in the pharaoh’s other hand. Also the figures appear with undulating curves rather than rigid lines. Furthermore, the pharaoh and his wife have hierarchy of scale over their daughters, but are displayed equal to each other. This…

Mai, following by her daughter Mercedes, then Mercedes’s daughter Amalfi and finally Lelia, Amalfi’s daughter. One sees similar conflicts with each mother-daughter duo. Therefore, showing how unstable Mother and Daughters relationships were due to different values in each generation valued. Rosario shows the strict relationship between Graciela and her mother Mai. After not bring the groceries that Mai send her to buy, Graciela was beaten by Mai; “Mai whacked her daughter on the back with a…

5The story “Two Kinds” is written by Amy Tan. The story is about June's mother starting test to see if her daughter is a prodigy. One day, the mom sees a young Chinese girl playing piano on the Ed Sullivan Show, and then uses that idea to have her daughter June starting playing the piano. June starts piano lessons with Chong, who her mother exchanges lessons for cleaning services. After a while, June prepares to play the piano at a recital, which her mom and her friends come to watch her.…

says to her daughter will go over her head and she will still go on to become her own woman; a woman that will not be socially accepted within the Antiguan community. She predetermines that her daughter has already gone down the path of promiscuity. She tells her how to dress appropriately as not entice men. She wants to prevent her daughter from becoming a prostitute, as many young girls living in poor communities do in order to make money and survive. She has no confidence in her daughter that…

places her daughter in a box and expects her daughter to remain there. Similarly in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator’s husband John diagnoses the narrator with a mental illness and expects her to remain within her room resting and not doing anything. Through the development of the characters, point of view, and conflict, both of these stories portray women who are affected by the boxes they are placed in. In “Girl” there is only two possible characters: a mother and her daughter.…