Joy Luck Club Analysis

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The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club movie directed by Wayne Wang, it portrays the lives of four mothers and daughters. The four mothers all shared hardships lives while being raised in china under the Chinese culture where they would either be submissive to a man or loose of hope. They later had to flee to America in the 1940’s to restore a better life. Unlike their daughters who have a better chance of happiness because they were raised in America, so pretty much became Americanize and not tided with their Chinese culture. But the mothers witness the same traits of their lives in their daughters, they decided to break the silence and to share their stories. They wanted to show their daughters the values of having self-worth and having a spirit. The Joy Luck Club was created by Suyuan Woo when she was back in china. The club June did not get married, but her mother was not upset at the fact, but it did cross her mind that she was because most of the other daughters were married and she was not. After her mother died it took a toll on her, for example, one scene when all the mothers and daughters were taking a photo June didn’t want to be a part of it but was asked to. But on the other hand, Waverly got married twice, the first marriage was to a Chinese man with whom she had a daughter with. Waverly stated that she wasn’t happy and the only reason she did it was to please her mother and she felt like she still wasn’t pleased. Waverly second marriage was to a white man named Rich, Waverly felt her mother would be disappointed with her, so it took her some time to break the news about them getting married. One day in the hair salon Suyuan finally admits to Waverly that she didn’t have a problem with Rich. June and Waverly both just wanted to please their mothers the best way they

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