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Relationship With Waverly In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

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Essay In Amy Tan’s novel, “ Joy Luck Club’s , the cultural and generational conflicts seen in the relationship between Waverly and Lindo Jong were based off diiferent beliefs when following the Chinese Culture and Generational pathsled from Lindo, the mother, which leads on down to her daughter, Waverly. It all begins with the Filial Piety rules of Wavely following and honoring her mother, Lindo, from her childhood until marriage.Lindo and Waverly conflicts are consists of Waverly’s dismissal of her Chinese cultures and traditions as she became older and Lindo’s ways of teaching Waverly her Chinses circumstances which does not work because Waverly growing into the American culture all her life.

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When Waverly was younger, she had accepted her mother’s rules to control her life and respect her as the tradition said. As Waverly got older, she started developing her own independence and she became very stuck up and selfish. In the beginning, Waverly was more in touch with her Chinese culture, but as she grew older it faded very quickly. Lindo wanted Waverly to have a Chinese character mixed with her American circumstances, but she later learned that those two do not mix. In Double Face, Lindo states, “ It is my fault she is this way. I wanted mt children to have the best combination: American Circumstances and Chinese character. How can I not know these two things do not mix,” (Tan, 254). Another generational conflict is in the beginning, Lindo tells Waverly,” to bite back her tongue” when she begged for the small bag of plums. This shows that Waverly was taught to be obedience and that is one of the daily truths Lindo wanted imparted in her children, but it seems only Waverly did not care as she got older and from under her mother’s influence. In Waverly’s adulthood, she wanted to go on her honeymoon in China but she also wants to blend in. This generation gap between the two reminds Lindo of herself by how Waverly acts and they both are similar but their intentions are

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