the joy luck club

The story of the joy luck club was pretty confusing and I didn’t really like it. It just seemed so sad that the girl didn’t really know what her mother was like. The fact that she needed to resort to her mothers friends to actually learn stuff about her was also quite sad. All she had to learn from was other people’s stories and opinions and clearly that’s not the way a mother daughter relationship should be by nature. At the same time, I felt that her mother was rather careless for the time that she was there. She basically picked her two dresses over her kids and chose to take them with her and leave her children behind. Her history with men does not seem all that bright either, and that fact that she ran off with a man who had already been married a bunch of times and had cheated on previous relationships made me feel sorry for her. All in all, its sad that she couldn’t raise her daughter but she seems to enjoy hearing all about her mothers life and experiences. To add on to the story, she has in a sense, taken her mothers place in the mah jong table with her mothers friends.