Traversing Through Linguistic and Cultural Barriers: The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan

Just the other day, I had an argument with my mother about what kind of music we wanted to listen to in the car. Everyone struggles with communication and being able to identify with parents or other guardians at some point in their life. In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan the characters must struggle not only with the generation gap, but also linguistic and cultural barriers. Despite their daughter's American upbringing, the mothers …

…in the stories their mothers have to tell. <Tab/>The language and cultural conflicts the mothers and daughters come into contact with and the ways they overcome these conflicts convey just how much the mother and daughter pairs truly love each other. They might not always see eye to eye or understand each other, but they learn to share in a dialogue of love that often transcends linguistic and cultural barriers.