喜福会人物简介.doc

The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families who start a club known as the Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of Mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. There are sixteen chapters divided into four sections, and each woman, both mothers and daughters, (with the exception of one mother, Suyuan Woo, who dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each section comes after a parable. In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu. The screenplay was written by Amy Tan and Ronald Bass. Contents [hide] 1 Plot summary and Reception 2 Criticism 3 Characters 3.1 Mothers 3.2 Daughters 4 Table of contents 4.1 Feathers from a Thousand Li Away 4.2 The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates 4.3 American Translation 4.4 Queen Mother of the Western Skies 5 References 6 External links [edit] Plot summary and Reception As the novel opens Jing-Mei June Woo has just lost her mother, Suyuan, to an aneurysm. She is asked by her mothers three friends to take Suyuans place in their Mah-Jong foursome and their Joy Luck Club. The novel unfolds with interspersed chapters by each of the three remaining members of the Club and their American-born daughters. Lindo and Waverly Jong began their war over Waverlys childhood chess stardom and the effects it has on every aspect of Waverlys adult life. An-Mei Hsu recounts the tragedy that gave her strength, and worries that her daughter, Rose, lacks the same determination. Lena St. Clair tries to care for her eccentric mother, while her mother recounts a secret history that has allowed her to see more deeply than her daughter imagines. Through it all, June Woo tries to piece together the stories that her own mother can no longer tell, and to be faithful to her m