The Joy Luck Club
“Amy Tan’s special accomplishment in this novel is not her ability to show us how mothers and daughters hurt each other, but how they love and ultimately forgive each other. If the book has a plot, it is her characters’ slow progress from confusion to understanding.” (“Tiger Spirits,” The Woman’s Review of Books, July 1989, 12.) This quote by Nancy Willard imply that in The Joy Luck Club the mothers and daughters disappoint each other because of the each others actions. They don’t deliberately hurt them, however they end up hurting them with either their actions or comments. Even though they are disconcert, they forgive each other. They don’t hold a grudge, and what’s most important to them they each other and that’s the most important factor. The mothers and daughters learn more about each other and they come to understand and respect one another. At first there is a lot of confusion, but as time goes by they are able to learn more about each other and understand why things happen they way they do. They come to an understanding and are able to resolve and overcome their predicaments.Reading this book, made me realize that our mothers know more about us than we think. They are a part of their daughters, after all they are thei
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Approximate Word count = 1250
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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