The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club presents the intricate relationships of mothers and daughters based on each character 's personal history . A touching story of narratives of women from two different generations , who were raised in different cultures and whose lives were shaped by the past . The movie reveals the dynamic bond between mothers and daughters and the various aspects in life which affects their relationships as well as their individual character and personality . The movie emphasized how certain elements like culture and tradition , unique and shared family values gender roles , and ethnicity influenced

their lives as a mother , as a daughter and as a woman

The story revolves in the send-off party for June , who was going to China to meet her long lost sisters . When her mother Su Yuan died , she took her place in the Joy Luck Club , a group of Chinese immigrant women organized by her mother in a church thirty years ago . She joined them in the Chinese game `mahjong ' with the three other women : Lindo , Ying-ying and An Mei . These women have daughters her age

At the party , the characters were nostalgic about their pasts , somehow relating their personal stories with June and Su Yuan . They begin to recollect their histories and the meaning events that changed their lives . The death of Su Yuan and June 's search for understanding of her mum 's life and story made all the characters realize the significant connection they have as mothers and daughters . Xu , in his article explains that pasts cast a shadow on the present through memory and the present also pre-imposes the past by means of memory (Xu , 1994 Each character in the film tried to find the significance in the past events in their lives : the vivid memories which honed their identities and played a vital role in creating their mother-daughter relationships

A mother and her child are connected by a biological link that has a very important part in the development of every individual . The mothers in the film displayed a strong influence in their child 's personhood development . Poster explains it as the mirror effect , when the image of the child has of itself is in fact the image of its mother (Poster 1988 ,

.90 . In June 's story , she was trying her best to understand the hopes of Su Yuan . She thought that her mother always believe that she can be anything her mother wanted he to be . The hopes of Su Yuan pressured June all her life it became her standards which eventually caused misunderstanding in their relationship . Moreover , Poster discussed in his book that the desire of the mother , the unconscious attitude towards the child , operates as a signifier which the child 's desires incorporate (Poster , 1988 ,

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The other characters in the film also experienced this kind of relationship with their mothers . When Waverly was young , there came a point when she felt that her mother , Lindo , was just using her to show off . Lindo was always...