The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan

In general, the parent and child relationship can be very challenging and even straining but can get easier once they understand each other. Amy Tan, the author of “ The Joy Luck Club” uses a mother-and-daughter relationship to show people how these relationships are. Amy uses these characters, Suyuan and Jing Me, to include how their experiences and their cultural differences, and even their misunderstanding are part of the challenges of these relationships. In this novel, the main character Suyuan and Jing-Mei have a typical parent-child relationship. Suyuan is Jing Mei’s mother and she has an interesting past. Suyuan is fully Chinese and Jing-mei is Chinese American. Because of these cultural differences, there is some conflict

Jing-mei also viewed things a lot different than her mother which is pretty normal in this kind of relationship. Suyuan as a Chinese mother is very hard on Jing-Mei. She does not agree with this but has dealt with it. Jing-Mei has never really gotten why her mother was so hard on her. Suyuan would say things like,” Cannot be helped…'' or “ Just like you, Not the best,”( Tan 304 ) These things would make Jing mei feel like she's not good, rough, or worthless. In Jing Mei's opinion, she has let her mother down. Jingmei’s whole childhood has been all about trying to be what her mother wants her to be. Now that she's older and has given up on becoming a prodigy and making her mother proud, she realizes how disappointed her mother was with

The last chapter of this novel called,” A Pair of Tickets ' is about Jing-mei pursuing her mother's hope and dreams of finding her daughters in china . Jing-mei has had a hard time since knowing what her mother has been through. Even though Jing-Mei and suyuan's relationship has never been the strongest, now that Suyuan has passed and JIng mei learns that her mother`s past has affected Jing-mei, Cultural. “ But today I realize I've never really known what it means to be Chinese. I am 36 years old. My mother is dead and I'm on a train carrying with me her dreams of coming home…” ( Tan 305). Suyuan has always wanted to pursue this but she hasn't built up the money, courage, or time and has always just put it off. But Jing me does mean her long-cherished wish for a reason. “ She had said this so matters of factly that I thought she had long since gotten over any grief she had. And then I wondered how she knew they were all dead”( Tan 311 ). Jing-Mei learned about all of her mother's past and the details involving them. Suyuan telling Jing mei some of this somehow brought them together in a