Comparing The Mother-Daughter Relationships In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

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In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, there were four mother-daughter relationships in the book. Each mother-daughter pair have problems with their cultural and generational differences. The most interesting mother-daughter relationship would be between Suyuan and Jing-mei "June" Woo. In the book, the author, Amy Tan, writes, "My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America... 'Of course you can be prodigy, too,' my mother told me when I was nine." This tells the reader that Suyuan Woo has a strong sense of the power of will, but this can lead to problems. Suyuan believed that Jing-mei could be a child prodigy if she could find Jing-mei talents and feed it well. This had an opposite effect on Jing-mei since it made her feel
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