My Interpretive Response to "The Joy Luck Club"
My Interpretive Response to “The Joy Luck Club” I chose to respond to Amy Tans’ first novel, “ The Joy Luck Club”. In this story I find it quite interesting how each character seems to be constantly struggling with trying to find their true identity. And in doing so there is so much confusion and misinterpretations going on between themselves. The point that I really want to emphasize about this particular story is the lack of communication skills in the mother-daughter relationships. From the very beginning of the movie there is a big language-communication barrier going on that keeps the mothers from relating to their daughters, or vice versa, and without this mutual understanding of each others wants, beliefs, and ideas then their can never be that mother-daughter relationship that they are trying to establish with one another. The daughters think that the mothers are to stuck on their Chinese culture and background and that they don’t want to relate to their American way of doing things. While that might somewhat be true the mothers are really just trying to keep them from ignoring the fact that they are from Chinese descent. In the movie, Waverly, Lena and Rose, spend their childhood trying to hide from their Chinese Identities. At one point in the movie Waverly’s mother spoke of how happy Waverly would have been if she didn’t look Chinese. Auntie Lindo was forced into a prearranged marriage by her mother.