Joy Luck Club

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This post is in response to Lauren. I am intrigued by your thoughts on the conflict of thought on destiny between the mothers and daughters. I was thinking that they might conflict because they don’t know the troubles their mothers have experienced. It seems that all of their ill-will is spun out of the break between their thoughts and their mothers’ beleifs regarding what should be customary. It seems that only Jing-Mei truly appreciates the relationship between mother and daughter, and she only began to appreciate it after her mother’s death. Waverly Jong fails to grasp the pride that here accomplishments bring her mother. And the Rose Hsu has no idea what her mother had to go through as a teenage bride in China, she spends three days passed out on sleeping pills when a marriage she had, which at least was a little based on love, fails. The daughters don’t seem to appreciate the things their mothers endured and, thusly, they can’t truly respect the opinions of their mothers.