Is The Relationship Between Lindo And Waverly's Relationship In The Joy Luck Club

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It was hard for me to change my daily routine because I was used to it and thought that it will not be going well. However, step out of my comfort zone to move forward. This can be shown in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan in 1989. In The Joy Luck Club, they introduce four different perspectives about mother and daughter's view on each life. Tan also demonstrates how each mother’s aspirations for their daughter in America and her opinions about them affect them. Tan also demonstrates how each mother's aspirations for their daughter in America and opinions about them affect them. The novel contrasts the past lives and experiences of each mother, as well as the conflicts between cultures and the adjustment to life in America. Numerous family secrets …show more content…

Lindo Jong grew up in China, and she moved to America and had a daughter Waverly Jong. The relationship between Lindo and Waverly comes out in “The Red Candle” and “Rules of the Game” stories. At the beginning of The Red Candle, the narrator discusses the nature of promises. Lindo promises to keep the honor of her family by marrying her husband. However, she had difficulties in her marriage. Later, she looked up in the mirror and took out the red scarf, and saw the invisible power in herself. In the “Rules of the Game”, Waverly gets Lindo's "invisible strength"—the capacity to hide her plans and strategize—from her mother. Although she initially applies ideas to chess, she subsequently applies them to her mother, Lindo, visualizing her arguments with her as a competition. Throughout “The Red Candle” and “Rules of the Game,” Tan highlights the invisible strength through the utilization of wind to emphasize the relationship between Lindo and …show more content…

Lindo states, “I … looked in the mirror … I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind… And then I deathbed the large embroidered red scarf over my face and covered these thoughts up. But underneath the scarf, I still knew who I was. I made a promise to myself: I would always remember my parent's wishes, but I would never forget myself” ( Tan ). The invisible strength enables Lindo to withstand the challenges that a constrictive and patriarchal culture imposes on her. She prepares for her arranged marriage to a man she does not love while gazing into the mirror since she is aware that to break off the marriage would be to break her parents' pledge to her husband's family. However, she makes a pledge to herself, which she resolves to keep with equal zeal. Lindo’s lesson in balancing duty to one’s parents and responsibility to oneself also links her to her daughter who must learn to revere their heritage and elders without becoming passive, and without giving up their desires and aspirations. Waverly states, “ I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect from others, and eventually .. chess games. At home, she said, “Wise guy, he does not go