Summary Of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

Throughout the years american women have gone through numerous trials and tribulations to obtain the rights that we have today. It took countless strong willed luminary women to get us to where we are here In the 21st century. These women made it their life's work to have equal rights with the close-minded men around them that were stuck In a comfortable state. With all of our considerable advances leading up to where we are today, why can't every American woman say "I have it all?" Whether or not the American woman can have it all is strictly based entirely on one's perspective; one's outlook on life and her future, whether it be as a house-wife, mother, or a working women is dependent on the individual and will change drastically from woman

She depicts the hardships of growing up within the multicultural family as a first generation Chinese-American girl and later woman. The focal point in most of her writing are the trials and difficulties related many mother-daughter relationships. She based these story's on her own personal experiences growing up. Their parents put pressure on Amy and her brothers to maintain their Chinese traditions and culture throughout their childhood. With almost a sense of rebellion the children tried very hard to fit into the American society. "They wanted us to have American circumstances and Chinese character," Tan said in an interview with Elaine Woo in the Los Angeles Times (March 12,

The topic of American social classes is a somewhat controversial. Here in the states most Americans would agree that we have three classes; the rich -or upper class-, the middle class, and the poor -or lower class-. The rich are looked upon as having almost anything they want at their disposal. Money isn't a problem for them, they are generally well educated because they can afford higher education with ease. They have more opportunities at their fingertips because of the connections that fellow family's off higher classes share. The tendency for mental issues is much higher in this class though due to pressure to always be perfect. For many people, money can not buy happiness. Thus causing issues with the inability to be happy with life. When one has everything, what is there to strive for. Take Sylvia Plath for example, she was a famous poet and novelist who lived in the 1950's and 60's. She grew up in an upper class Boston family. Her father was a well know Professor at Boston university. She attended Smith College in Massachusetts, but in her junior year she faltered to the ailment that was an epidemic on her fathers side of her family, depression. Sylvia's mother sought treatment for her, and as an out-patient she was given bi-polar electroconvulsive shock treatments that was so common in that time period. August 1953, Sylvia attempted