The joy luck club by amy tan
The joy luck club by amy tanTan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. NY.:Ivybooks, 1989
In the past few weeks, I have been reading The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Suyuan Woo and her daughter June are the main characters mentioned in this essay. While reading the novel, Amy Tan has demonstrated the mother and daughters attempt to articulate their concerns of the past, present, and intentions of themselves which will affect them later on.
Suyuan and June's character have a mother-daughter relationship confused with scattered conflict. However, it will ultimately be composed of deep love and commitment for one another. Most of the conflicts that Suyuan and June face are based on misunderstandings and negligence concerning each others opinions. What started the confliction was when Suyuan starts to tell her daughter June that she can be anything she wants to be. At first, June is especially excited about the dreams she will become. "In all my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would become perfect...my parents would adore me" (143). This shattered dream will start when Suyuan pushes June to be successful in areas such as dance, academics, trivia quizzes, and piano. After failing the tasks, June begins to feel resentful towards her mother to becoming a child prodigy. She starts to see her mothers hopes as expectations, and if June did not live up to this, she would feel like a complete failure. In one incident, during a talent show, June performs a piano piece filled with mistakes. Ultimately being embarrassed, June believed that her mother was ashamed of her. "...my mother's expression was a quiet, blank look..." (143). However, June was wrong. Suyuan was not ashamed, but upset. She was upset because June did not care about having the best for herself. June did not have high hopes to be successful at anything which Suyuan had wished. June had failed because she did not try or care. Furthermore, Suyuan had felt that June did not appreciate what she had tried to provide for her daughter.
It is not until much later, after Suyuans death, will June realize how much her mother loved her. This major event is what opened June's eyes to see the good intentions Suyuan has done for her. Also, this will be the time where June will know more about her mothers tragic past. June did not know Suyuan lost her two twin daughters and her family during the war. She never noticed that Suyuan still felt the painful memory of her losses. Until then, does June realize that Suyuan had always provided her with good intentions that she has always done for her in different ways. Such as learning how to play the piano. June did not realize that Suyuan was always proud of her daughter. In one incident, an acquaintance of June humiliates...
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