喜福会读后感Review on The Joy Luck Club.docVIP

The Joy Luck Club. Amy Tan. New York, the Ballantine Publishing Group, 1989. The Joy Luck Club is a stunning novel concerning the lives of Chinese immigrants in America. It explores the tender and tenacious bond between four mothers and their children, of which Amy Tan got the inspiration from her difficult relationship with her mother, a typical Chinese immigrant parent. Amy, in The Joy Luck Club, specially weaves an exquisite tapestry presenting the four immigrants’ bewilderment at American culture and their struggles to inculcate their Chinese cultural heritage in their daughters. In such a story-telling way, Amy describes, from the perspectives of different characters, the confusion of fierce love and misunderstanding which lies between the two generations. Amy’s stories developed through the conflict between the mothers and their daughters. In 1949, four Chinese women who immigrated to San Francisco together began to eat dim sum, play mah jong and talk in the joy luck club. That’s how the club was started, with the loss and hope of those women. Rather than sink into tragedy, the women chose to gather in this club to raise their spirits and money, as To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. Along with the years passing, those women were confronted with more and more conflict with their daughters. The mothers wanted love and obedience from their daughters, but they did not know the gifts that the daughters kept to themselves and still tried every means to force them to follow the “right” direction, while the daughters, who wanted to revolt, felt they could never please their mothers and did not understand why their mothers treated them in such way. The bittersweet love between the two generations is therefore flamingly shown in the stories. The reason for the conflict depicted becomes evident when Amy Tan sets her novel background in the cultural shock. The misunderstanding between the immigrant mothers