Major Themes In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club is in four sections. Each of the four section tells a short parable that introduces the major themes of that section.
Pages 1-32
Suyuan Woo
The novel opens after the death of Suyuan Woo, an elderly Chinese woman and the founding member of the Joy Luck Club. She has died without fulfilling her “long-cherish wish”: to be untied with her twin daughters who were lost in China. At the first meeting, her daughter Jing-Mei learns that her long-lost half sisters is in China. Her aunties told her that she needs to fulfill her mother’s wish by going to China and tell her half sisters about the mother she has been living with her whole life.
Pages 33-83
An-Mei Hsu
An-mei lived with her uncle, auntie and her grandmother and she was forbidden to talk about her mother …show more content…
It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect from others, eventually a “game of chess that is secret in which one must show and never tell.”chess games. She learned how to fight her life battle with chess games.
Lena St. Clair As a young girl, Lena has always envision bad things. She sees the things that other people don’t see.
Rose Hsu Jordan Rose’s mother wants her to keep fighting for her marriage, even if it doesn’t work out. Rose draws a parallel between her brother’s death and her own marriage; both times, she sees the danger coming but does nothing about it.
Jing-Mei Woo After seeing Waverly success of the chess games, Jing-Mei’s mother is convinced that her daughter can be a prodigy too. Her mother accuses her for not being the best at anything because she is not trying hard. Pages 161-236
Lena St. Clair Lena starts her narrative by telling us that her mother can see the future. (Only the bad things in the future) Lena was also trying to save her marriage, before she got married to her husband, her mother already knows that her marriage is going to fall apart, so does she.
Waverly
Pages 1-32
Suyuan Woo
The novel opens after the death of Suyuan Woo, an elderly Chinese woman and the founding member of the Joy Luck Club. She has died without fulfilling her “long-cherish wish”: to be untied with her twin daughters who were lost in China. At the first meeting, her daughter Jing-Mei learns that her long-lost half sisters is in China. Her aunties told her that she needs to fulfill her mother’s wish by going to China and tell her half sisters about the mother she has been living with her whole life.
Pages 33-83
An-Mei Hsu
An-mei lived with her uncle, auntie and her grandmother and she was forbidden to talk about her mother …show more content…
It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect from others, eventually a “game of chess that is secret in which one must show and never tell.”chess games. She learned how to fight her life battle with chess games.
Lena St. Clair As a young girl, Lena has always envision bad things. She sees the things that other people don’t see.
Rose Hsu Jordan Rose’s mother wants her to keep fighting for her marriage, even if it doesn’t work out. Rose draws a parallel between her brother’s death and her own marriage; both times, she sees the danger coming but does nothing about it.
Jing-Mei Woo After seeing Waverly success of the chess games, Jing-Mei’s mother is convinced that her daughter can be a prodigy too. Her mother accuses her for not being the best at anything because she is not trying hard. Pages 161-236
Lena St. Clair Lena starts her narrative by telling us that her mother can see the future. (Only the bad things in the future) Lena was also trying to save her marriage, before she got married to her husband, her mother already knows that her marriage is going to fall apart, so does she.
Waverly