The Joy Luck Club Essay - Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a story base on Chinese women in American tradition. One of the characters in the novel, Lindo Jong was born as a female in China. Lindo was undervalued because as a Chinese woman, she had an arranged marriage, she was treated unfairly by her husband, and also her own parents. Born as a female in China, many decisions are made by elders or men, not much opinion …

…always mistreated her daughter. "Of course I know the tree trunk lady...some Chinese say about girl babies being worthless...looked and smelled like a precious bun cake...." (Tan 1989, p.43-44) Lindo do not believe that not all Chinese girls are mistreated (which is true in reality.) but she thought that she is special. She believe that she will and should be treated overvalue because of her appearance and odour that she thinks is good.