Tan and Wang

The Joy Luck Club The film and book, The Joy Luck Club, directed by Wayne Wang and written by Amy Tan, respectively, although still depressing at times was a nice departure from the blunt death and destruction featured in the works we discussed the first half of the semester. The stories of the eight women hit very close to home for me because I also have a love and hate relationship with my mother who …

…him happy. I prefer the film to the book, but I found the entirety of the stories in general marvelous. I have read very few works written by women, for women, and about women. It was very exciting to read a novel and watch a movie that showed such great insight into a woman’s heart and mind and that proved that women can be beautiful, intelligent, independent, and strong in such a male-dominated world.