She regrets having wanted to give Waverly both American circumstances and a Chinese character, stating that the two can never successfully combine. Lindo perhaps experiences the largest crisis of cultural identity of any of the characters. She discovers these values while in China, caught in a loveless marriage and oppressed by the tyranny of her mother-in-law.
The Jong Family: Lindo Jong - Lindo Jong learns from an early age the powers of “invisible strength”-of hiding one’s thoughts until the time is ripe to reveal them, and of believing in one’s inner force even when one finds oneself at a disadvantage. They have always identified with Americans (Jing-mei also goes by the English name “June”) but are beginning to regret having neglected their Chinese heritage. For the most part, Jing-mei’s fears echo those of her peers, the other daughters of the Joy Luck Club members. Her narratives serve as bridges between the two generations of storytellers, as Jing-mei speaks both for herself and for her recently deceased mother, Suyuan. The other members of the Joy Luck Club give her money to travel to China so that she can find her mother’s long- lost twin daughters. The Woo Family: Jing-mei (June) Woo - Jing-mei Woo is the newest member of the Joy Luck Club, having taken her mother Suyuan’s place after her death. This leads to a deep resentment in Jing-mei. Her sense of the power of will can at times cause problems, such as when Suyuan believes that her daughter Jing-mei can be a child prodigy if only the Woos can locate her talent and nurture it well enough. It is with this mentality that she founds the original Joy Luck Club while awaiting the Japanese invasion of China in Kweilin. Instead, she struggles to create happiness and success where she finds it lacking. Suyuan Woo is a strong and willful woman who refuses to focus on her hardships. The Woo Family: Suyuan Woo - Suyuan Woo was Jing-mei’s mother and the founder of the Joy Luck Club. The club’s other members-Lindo, Ying-ying, and An-mei-are three of her mother’s oldest friends and fellow immigrants. Jing-mei has taken her mother’s place playing mahjong in a weekly gathering her mother had organized in China and revived in San Francisco: the Joy Luck Club. The book hinges on Jing-mei’s trip to China to meet her half-sisters. The trip provided Tan with a fresh perspective on her mother, and it served as the key inspiration for her first book, The Joy Luck Clubĥ Plot Synopsis The Joy Luck Club contains sixteen interwoven stories about conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters. In 1987, after her mother returned to health, they traveled to China, where Tan’s mother was reunited with her daughters and Tan met her half-sisters.
in Linguistics, and Tan resolved to take a trip to China with her mother if she recovered. Tan’s mother had divorced her first husband, who had been abusive, and had fled China just before the Communist takeover in She left behind three daughters, whom she would not see again for nearly forty years.Ĥ Context Tan’s mother was suffering from a serious illness while Tan was pursuing a Ph.D.
During this period, Tan learned that her mother had been married before, in China. When Tan was in her early teens, her father and one of her brothers each died of a brain tumor within months of each other. Presentation on theme: "The Joy Luck Club An Introduction."- Presentation transcript:ģ Context Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, in Her parents, both Chinese immigrants, lived in various towns in California before eventually settling in Santa Clara.
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