An Analysis Of The Joy Luck Club

从《喜福会》看中美家庭价值观差异
摘要：美国著名华裔作家谭恩美的代表作《喜福会》，讲述了四个从中国移民到美国的家庭中，中国母亲和美国化了的女儿之间的矛盾与冲突，是研究探讨中美价值观的极佳范本。本文将从《喜福会》入手，运用比较研究法着重探讨中美家庭价值观中家庭概念与地位、婚姻观、教育观的差异，并进一步分析导致这些差异的深层原因，如文化环境、传统观念、社会形态等。通过分析其原因，有助于加深两国的相互了解，进行有效的交流，使中国的家庭价值观得以发展和完善。

关键词：喜福会；家庭价值观；家庭教育；婚姻观；差异

A Study of Differences of Family Values in Chinese and American Cultures with The Joy Luck Club as an Example
Abstract: The Joy Luck Club, is the famous second generation Chinese American writer Amy Tan’s magnum opus. It is a narrative novel focusing on the conflicts between Chinese mothers and Americanized daughters in four Chinese American immigrant families. It serves as an excellent sample to discuss the family values of China and America. This paper will take The Joy
They are more democratic comparatively. They always encourage their children to do what they want and offer them help. They allow children to make mistakes and they think children will learn a lot from that. They let the children feel the world in their own initiative. They believe it is helpful for the children to obtain the ability to think independently.
As is shown in the novel, The Joy Luck of Club, those American Chinese daughters were raised in American environment, so even though they received some of the Chinese standards taught by their parents, they embraced an American lifestyle and would fight against their mother for their rights. So when she was a child, she tried her best to make a stand against her future that was designed by mother.
Being raised up in American, Waverly believed that “I am my own person. I am not your person.” And anyone’s achievement belongs to his business. She felt embarrassed with her mother, and when she finally could not take it anymore, she talked back to her mother: “Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don’t you learn to play chess? ” What seems natural for the mother becomes unbearable for the daughter.
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Since then, even her own family members treated her as an outsider. In her husband’s home, she tried very hard to learn all kinds of housework and tried every means to please her husband and his families members. She took that as the direction of her future life. She behaved as an obedient daughter-in-law in front of her parents-in-law, just as what they wanted her to be. She asked the chef to kill a young chicken every morning and to make chicken soup without adding a drop of water. Then she poured it into a bowl in person. This was Tyan-yu’s breakfast. In every evening, she made a pot of delicious and nutritious soup for the whole family, which made her mother-in-law very pleased. Her behavior was completely according with the traditional requirements of a wife who is equipped with three obedience and four virtues. However, her mother-in-law was still unsatisfied with her in the end and the reason was she didn’t conceive and give birth to a