What Are The Secrets In The Kitchen God's Wife

Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife is the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter that is much more than it seems. The story revolves around secrets and conflicts between mother and daughter, Chinese immigrant Winnie and her Americanize daughter Pearl. For over fifty years, Winnie has kept some of the worst possible secrets. When Helen her sister in law confronts Winnie telling her she just can't keep the secrets anymore, Winnie must come clean. Interestingly the person Winnie most wanted to protect from the truth was her own daughter Pearl, but Pearl has secrets of her own to reveal as well. After years of holding in the truth Winnie is forced to bear the complexity of remembering her past so that for the first time mother and daughter can understand each other as a whole.

Winnie’s secrets goes way back in the WWII in China where she belong in an upper class family, Winnie at a young age was force to live with her uncle and his 2 wives by her father who can’t bear to be reminded of Winnie’s
The story of the Kitchen God’s wife, of Winnie and Pearl as mother and daughter shows the different faces of problems women in society faces in the past till now. Winnie as a woman who was once was an abuse wife who survived the war to becoming an immigrant, with a loving new husband and being a mother. To Pearl who was devastated to lost of her dad Jimmy when she was a teenager from having a stained relationship with her mother and to top it all to having a deceases. Winnie and Pearl’s conflicts shows that no matter what had happen whether it was in the past or in the present all they need to do be strong and be relay with each other to overcome what’s next for them like the wife of The Kitchen God, who has endured all, received no credit for the work she has done, and yet manages to still be