从象棋探究《喜福会》中的韦弗利学士学位论文.doc

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学士学位论文
题目从象棋探究《喜福会》中的韦弗利
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HARBIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY
 
 
 
 
 
Chess and Waverly in The Joy Luck Club
Abstract: The Joy Luck Club is the masterpiece of Amy Tan,a famous Chinese American writer. This article is to understand the character of Waverly from a special visual angle in
The Joy Luck Club. Through analyzing the explicit features of chess, we find the implicit meaning of Waverly. From this aspect, we can understand the works and the character better. The stories of chess and Waverly betray the developing of the plot in The Joy Luck Club and the change of Waverly. Waverly considers her mother as her adversary at beginning. But Waverly understands her mother at last. She realizes that the power is from her mother and her mother’s love. Conspicuously, chess has influenced the character of Waverly as a matter of fact.
Key Words: Chess, Rule of law, Fairness, Independence, Competition
1. Introduction
Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club is a masterpiece in Chinese-American literature. The Joy Luck Club mothers and their daughters have been the focus of research ever since the publication of this book. Some researchers put the emphasis on the relationship between the mothers and daughters while some others believe that it is the writing style that makes Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club a ess. For there are conflicts that have been vividly described in this book, some researchers making the conflicts in The Joy Luck Club the theme of their thesis. However, in this thesis, chess will be the theme, and it will be interpreted from a cultural point of view In The Joy Luck Club, fundamental differences between Chinese and American societies are presented in both explicit and implicit ways. For years, scholars have been conducting considerable research on the novel’s explicit portraits of the clashes, largely based on the major plots, conflicts and characters. Yet inadequate research has been done