The book, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a short story book. Each individual story is told from a different viewpoint of each of the seven characters: three migrant Chinese mothers, and their four American-Chinese daughters. The book has a mother-daughterly, familial theme. More specifically, it focuses on the issue of cultural clash between the Americanised daughters and their still-traditional, Chinese mothers. Amy Tan does this by presenting the conflicting views and stories …showed first 75 words of 1374 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1374 total…their daughters can have a better life - all because this is what their mother did for them. By the story's end, we have traced the path through three generations of women and this issue has expanded and filled a grander, universal role as the new theme to the story. The book finally concludes with June Woo finding her lost sisters in China and shares a moment of solace in memory of their now-deceased mother.