The Joy Luck Club - Vintage Classic

The Joy Luck Club is Amy Tan’s first and finest literary work in the genres of women’s literature and Asian American literature. It is a literary piece that can be seen as insightful, sad, and funny. It is a well-rounded novel describing the generation gap in the mother-daughter relationship. Amy Tan puts an emphasis on an unbridgeable gap between two different cultures. This is seen through Suyuan Woo, a Chinese immigrant who upon her arrival to San Francisco in 1949, finds three other Chinese women to form what is called “The Joy Luck Club”. The women meet up to play Mah Jong, gossip, cook and plan for joy and luck, hence, the name of the club.

The book opens almost 40 years after the first meeting. Upon Suyuan Woo’s death her daughter takes her place at the club and Mah Jong table. Jing-Mei, whose American name is June May, and the daughters of the three other women, seem to be uninterested in their mothers’ heritage and history.

The novel is brilliantly shaped to imitate the rules of the Mah Jong game. The game requires four players who need to play four hands each. The novel is divided into four parts, and each part is subdivided into four stories and each story is told by a different character. The novel begins and ends with the stories of the mothers and the sufferings they had to endeavour in China. The second and third parts of the novel tell the stories of the four daughters, which show the daughters’ lack of knowledge about the mothers’ pasts and hardships.

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