joy luck club analysis

“I started to cry, which I know Harold hates. It always makes him uncomfortable, angry. He thinks it’s manipulative” (179).




“He wouldn’t hear of taking any money from me, not as a favor, not as a loan, not as an investment, or even as the down payment on a partnership. He said he valued our relationship too much” (171).


“My mother knows how to hit a nerve. And the pain I feel is worse than any other kind of misery. Because what she does always comes as a shock” (186).



“And really, I did understand finally. Not w...