Describe an issue in The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, and explain how the author presents it.

The book, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a short story book. Each individual story is told from a different viewpoint of each of the seven characters: three (1) migrant Chinese mothers, and their four American-Chinese daughters. The book has a mother-daughterly, familial theme. More specifically, it focuses on the issue of cultural clash between the Americanised daughters and their still-traditional, Chinese mothers. Amy Tan does this by presenting the conflicting views and stories …

…for them. By the story's end, we have traced the path through three generations of women and this issue has expanded and filled a grander, universal role as the new theme to the story. The book finally concludes with June Woo finding her lost sisters in China and shares a moment of solace in memory of their now-deceased mother. 1 There are actually four mothers, but one of them had already died as the book starts