The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, presents us with daughters who are striving to find their true identity and become individuals despite the control of their strong mothers. Throughout the novel mothers and daughters struggle to bridge the gap in their relationship. The following comment by Nancy Willard: “Amy Tan’s special accomplishment in this novel is not her ability to show us how mothers and daughters hurt each other, …

…be true as it relates to the Jongs the St. Clairs, and the Woos. Even though the novel began in a state of disarry it ended with understanding. As the novel ended the daughters started to hear the words and stories of their mothers. They gained strength from this knowledge about their mothers and realized the richness of their culture. The daughters grew into stronger individuals, becoming the woman their mothers hoped they would be.