喜福会读后感Review on The Joy Luck Club.doc

The Joy Luck Club. Amy Tan. New York, the Ballantine Publishing Group, 1989.
The Joy Luck Clubis astunning novel concerning the lives of Chinese immigrants in America. It explores the tender and tenacious bond between four mothers and their children, of which Amy Tan got the inspiration from herdifficult relationship with her mother, a typical Chinese immigrant parent. Amy, in The Joy Luck Club, specially weaves an exquisite tapestry presenting the four immigrants’ bewilderment at American culture and their struggles to inculcate their Chinese cultural heritage in their daughters. In such a story-telling way, Amy describes,from the perspectives of different characters, the confusion of fierce love and misunderstanding which lies between the two generations.
Amy’s stories developed through the conflict betweenthe mothers and their daughters. In 1949, four Chinese women who immigrated to San Franciscotogether began to eat dim sum, play mahjong and talk in the joy luck club. That’s how the club was started, withthe loss and hope of those women. Rather than sink into tragedy, the women chose to gather in this club to raise their spirits and money, as "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Along with the years passing, those women were confronted with more and more conflict with their daughters. The mothers wanted lov