Failures In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

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Joy Luck Club Each section of the Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, gives a moral lesson. This lesson is that no matter what one is going through, one can always make the best out of a bad situation and work their way to happiness. This lesson is shown through the individual failures that turned into success. The members of the Joy Luck Club are telling stories from their past, each had a hardship and were able to make things work for the better. There are still bad things in their lives but not as bad as what they have gone through, they took their failure whether it was raising their kid wrong or choosing the wrong husband and were able to turn it into success. Some of these characters not only failed themselves but they failed the others that

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