The book, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a short story book. Each individual story is told from a different viewpoint of each of the seven characters: three migrant Chinese mothers, and their four American-Chinese daughters.
The book has a mother-daughterly, familial theme. More specifically, it focuses on the issue of cultural clash between the Americanised daughters and their still-traditional, Chinese mothers.
Amy Tan does this by presenting the conflicting views and stories of both sides, providing the reader (and, ultimately, the characters) with an understanding of the mentalities…
