When she leaves she is ready to move on with her life. She wonders what she has lost and what she has gotten in return. She waited four years before marrying Clifford St. Arms that encircled but did not touch. Then he sank the knife in with a mighty push and his huge mouth roared a laugh so big I could see all the way back to his gold teeth.
It was important that she speak perfect English and hopefully not share in the same tragedies and sorrows she had known. Look at this end table. Most of these relationships, already very fragile, become distanced through heritage, history and expectations. All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. Ying-ying and Lena are both born in the year of the tiger and should be similar in spirit.
In one of the previous chapters, it talked about Lena having a dark side because her mother also had a dark side. At the end, he leaves her for another woman as if she were nothing to him. Your family pretty much decides for you whether you like it or not. She feels as if she has nothing to say and nothing to do, like a ghost. My mother was born and raised in another country and her daughter was raised far away in the United States.
Even though cultures are always changing, they can still be categorized according to two types of culture. Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? In the novel, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, four mothers try to instill their Asian culture into their daughters' lifestyle; however, these daughters rebel against them, due to their desire to assimilate themselves into American culture. I cant believe that she killed her son before he was even born. It was weird how Ying-Ying married the drunk man even though she could have found someone better. Her mother says on p. At first, Lindo was appalled that he was Cantonese.
I liked how this chapter explains how Ying-ying and her first husband met. Clair, who she knows she will one day marry. All of the women were in search of a better life since the lives they had in China were not what they wanted for themselves. Both women go through the same conflicts in life, with marriage and with personal issues. She also mentioned that Ying-Ying was born the year of the tiger.
They try passing on a piece of themselves… 1326 Words 6 Pages of the mothers in the Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan. We also learn of her relationship with Clifford, and how she just lets him marry her, without really caring. Lindo Jong was a special character in the book , referring to promises she made to her mother as a young girl, and keeping them throughout her life. She waited and when she found out he as dead she didn;t even moarn. Ying-Ying and Clifford seem to not have a very good relationship.
So now she thinks that she will try to put some sense into her and compensate what she failed to do before by telling her daughter her tragic story. The main conflict for Ying-Ying is how to tell her daughter her past, her hope, her dream, and her regrets that she has hid from her all these years. Tan reveals these rifts, and their love for one another, in much the same way William Faulkner or Toni Morrison let us glimpse their characters lives instead of telling us their stories. And most of all, she waits until she gets a letter from her aunt telling her that her husband died, as if she finally had given in and had no other choice but to marry Clifford. Once my brothers and I stole a jar and poured the cigarettes out onto the streets.
After all she has been through it is crazy to know that her own daughter knows nothing about it. Like their author, the daughters in The Joy Luck Club experience a transformation in attitude towards their mothers and China over the course of the story, but the essential theme is more universal than that. She admits to the reader that she was a rebellious girl from a wealthy family. The Chinese mothers, so concentrated on the cultures of their own, don't want to realize what is going on around them. Now she and her husband give me money to add to my so-so security.
This is how the woo's, the Hsu's, the Jong's and the St Clair's met in 1949. But after they got married, her husband became unfaithful, sleeping around other woman. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. She is waiting for her daughter to come to her and listen to her. She starts by breaking the vase and table that her daughter's husband had made. If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too? Or did she just want another child, another chance at life? Its cool how two things can happen at one time and the reader can read from one person's view and then another to see the whole situation.