amy tan's writings

The unique characteristic of Amy Tan’s writing is the theme of Chinese – American life, as well as depicting mother-daughter relationships. She writes about the strains of a mother –daughter bond. Mother’s being very in touch with their Chinese heritage, and daughter’s struggling to understand after being mostly Americanized. In Tan’s acclaimed The Joy Luck Club Tan explores many different mother daughter relationships. All with the common theme again of Chinese American’s. The daughters all struggle to understand their mothers and their heritage but face the conflict of being Americanized.
The cycles of loss and reunion, death and regeneration, doubts and affirmation and the generational conflicts between the immigrant mothers and American daughters in The Joy Luck Club explain the novels instant success. Tan’s skillful storytelling not only provides culturally-specific experiences of Chinese- American women but also powerfully appeals to the universal emotion...