Mother and Daughter Relationships in Joy Luck Club and A Hundred Secret

Mother and Daughter Relationships in The rejoicing Luck Club and A Hundred Secret Senses In life, many things can be taken for granted - especially the things that lowly the most to you. You just might not realize it until youve lost it all. As I walk down the road finishing up my teenaged days, I slowly have been finding a better intelligence of my mother. The kind of bond that mothers and daughters have is beyond hard to describe. Its probably the biggest rollercoaster move of emotions that Ill ever have the chance to live through in my lifetime. But, for those of us who are lucky enough to survive the ride in oneness piece, its an amazing learning experience that will influence your entire future. In Amy Tans novels, The Joy Luck Club, and A Hundred Secret Senses, she describes relationships between mothers and daughters reflecting on her own parents experiences in life. Four mothers, quadruple daughters, four families... whose histories shift with the four winds dependin g on whos telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, become meeting to talk, eat dim sum, and play mahjong.. As Junes mother said, bringing close together was to have a gathering of four women, one for each corner of the mahjong table (Joy p.32) Being together in shared direful loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Instead of sinking into tragedy, they conduct to gather and raise their spirits. To despair was to wish anchor for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. (Joy p.134) In other words, why sit back and keep pondering the tragedy, its better to let the past go, and move on. In The Joy Luck Club, Tan examines the sometimes painful, often t... ...ring a hand-to-hand relationship to their families. Works Cited and Consulted Biography of Amy Tan. DIS savvying Authors Modules. 1998. GaleNet.Criticism, Amy Tan DIScovering Authors, Gale Research Inc, 1996. Buck, Claire. Amy Tan. The Blo omsbury Guide to Womens Literature. Pg1065 spectacular Britian Bloomsbury Publishing, 1992. Shear, Walter. Generational Differences and the Diaspora in The Joy Luck Club. in <>Critique. Volume 34, No3, restrict 1993 pp 193-99.(on GaleNetTan Amy. The Hundred Secret Senses, New York Mass Market Paperback, 1996Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. New York Mass Market Paperback, 1994 Willard, Nancy. Tiger Spirits. in The Womens reassessment of Books. Vol.6, Nos. 10-11, July 1989, pg12.(on GaleNet)*Amy Tan interview was conducted on the front cover of the hard cover copy addition of The Joy Luck Club.