Tan's Miscommunication

Miscommunication is very adverse for all types of relationships. The Joy Luck Club by

Amy Tan is based on Chinese mothers and their relationships with their American daughters and how their relationships are not strong because of their weak communication. Amy Tan uses Jing-mei and her mother Suyaun to support this claim that communication is important for a parent's relationship with their child or children. Jing-mei’s relationship with her mother was very bleak since they argued, often leading them to talk less and having overall negative communication. An example of Tan showing that communication is important is when she wrote “What will I say? What can I tell them about my mother? I don’t know anything,”(Tan 30). Tan is saying that Jing-mei

Amy Tan uses Jing-mei and her mother Suyaun to show that communication is important when she wrote “‘You want me to be someone I’m not…I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!’”(Tan 153). The reason that this quote is important Is because Jing-mei and Suyuan didn't have a strong relationship and it was because of arguments similar to this. She also shows that communication is important when she wrote “‘Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everybody else want best quality but you thinking different,”’(Tan256). The reason that this quote is important to support Tan's reason for writing the novel is because this quote shows that Suyaun understands her daughter Jing-mei because of the good communication they had before she

Suyaun forgave Jing-Mei when Tan wrote, “She offered me the piano…,”(Tan 154). This is important because Jing-mei saw this offer as a sign of her mother's forgiveness for the things she had said and done to her mother. Another example of when they came to an understanding is when Tan wrote “For, after our struggle at the piano, she never mentioned my playing again,”(Tan154). This shows that Suyaun accepted how Jing-mei felt about playing the piano after she had told her she didn't want to play so Suyaun accepted Jing-mei and how she felt about what was going on in her