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1、The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families who start a club known as the Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of Mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. There are sixteen chapters divided into four se
2、ctions, and each woman, both mothers and daughters, (with the exception of one mother, Suyuan Woo, who dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each section comes after a parable.In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang a
3、nd starring Ming-Na, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu. The screenplay was written by Amy Tan and Ronald Bass.Contents hide1 Plot summary and Reception 2 Criticism 3 Characters 3.1 Mothers 3.2 Daughters 4 Table of contents 4.1 Feath
4、ers from a Thousand Li Away 4.2 The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates 4.3 American Translation 4.4 Queen Mother of the Western Skies 5 References 6 External links edit Plot summary and ReceptionAs the novel opens Jing-Mei June Woo has just lost her mother, Suyuan, to an aneurysm. She is asked by her mother
5、s three friends to take Suyuans place in their Mah-Jong foursome and their Joy Luck Club. The novel unfolds with interspersed chapters by each of the three remaining members of the Club and their American-born daughters. Lindo and Waverly Jong began their war over Waverlys childhood chess stardom an
6、d the effects it has on every aspect of Waverlys adult life. An-Mei Hsu recounts the tragedy that gave her strength, and worries that her daughter, Rose, lacks the same determination. Lena St. Clair tries to care for her eccentric mother, while her mother recounts a secret history that has allowed h
7、er to see more deeply than her daughter imagines. Through it all, June Woo tries to piece together the stories that her own mother can no longer tell, and to be faithful to her mothers memory despite their sometimes rocky relationship. This story of the bonds between mothers and daughters has been p
8、opular with female readers.edit CriticismThough her book has been widely praised by critics, it has been criticized by noted Asian American author Frank Chin for perpetuating racist stereotypes.123edit Charactersedit MothersSuyuan Woo During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Suyuan lives in Kweilin (Gui
9、lin) while her husband at the time served as an officer in Chungking (Chongqing). She starts the original Joy Luck Club with her three friends to cope with the war. On the day of the Japanese invasion, Suyuan leaves her house with nothing but a bag of clothes, a bag of food, and her twin baby daught
10、ers. During the long journey, Suyuan contracts such severe dysentery that she feels certain she will die. Fearing that a dead mother would doom her babies chances of rescue, she reluctantly and emotionally leaves her daughters under a barren tree, together with all her belongings, along with a note
11、asking anyone who might find the babies to care for them. Suyuan then departs, expecting to die, but is rescued herself. She later remarries, comes to America, forms a new Joy Luck Club with three other Chinese female immigrants she met at church, and has more children. But her abandonment of the tw
12、in girls haunts her for the rest of her life. After many years, Suyuan learns that the twins were adopted, but dies of a brain aneurysm before she can meet them. It is her American-born daughter Jing-mei who fulfills her long-cherished wish of reuniting with her elder twin half-sisters. As Suyuan di
13、es before the novel begins, her history is told by Jing-mei, based on her knowledge of her mothers stories, anecdotes from her father, and what the other members of the Joy Luck Club tell her. An-Mei Hsu An-Mei is raised by her grandparents and other relatives during her early years in Ningbo after
14、her widowed mother shocks the family by becoming a concubine to a middle-aged wealthy man after her first husbands death. This becomes a source of conflict for the young An-Mei, as her aunts and uncles deeply resent her mother for such a dishonorable act, and they try to convince An-Mei that she is
15、not fit to live with her disgraced mother; now forbidden to enter the family home. An-Meis mother, however, still wishes to be part of her daughters life. After An-Meis grandmother died, she lives with her mother in the home of her mothers new husband, Wu-Tsing. An-Mei learns that her mother became
16、Wu-Tsings concubine through the manipulations of his favorite concubine known as Second Wife, who arranged a plan for An-Meis mother, still in mourning for her original husband, to be raped by Wu-Tsing. The stigma left An-Meis mother with no choice but to marry Wu-Tsing and become his new but lowly Fourth Wife. She later lost her baby son to Second Wife, who claimed the boy as her own child to ensure her place in the household. Second Wife also trie
