Mothers In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

The novel The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, centers on the interconnected story lines of four immigrant Chinese-American mothers and their now grown, adult daughters. The mothers meet every month to play Mahjong and enjoy Chinese delicacies in their social group, the ‘Joy Luck Club’. When Jing-Mei “June” Woo’s mother Suyan Woo dies, June takes her mother’s place at the meetings. At June’s first meeting, the older women tell her stories about the past in China and lament the barriers between
The other three mothers worry that their own daughters, like June, do not fully understand or appreciate the mothers’ stories. The book describes
The Joy Luck Club effectively portrays the clashing cultures//differences in culture/politics/lifestyle between