Joy Luck Club Conflict
The Joy Luck Club Essay Most people have at least one fight with their guardian(s) in their life, is that because of a difference in opinion, a misunderstanding or are they just different people? Generational conflict is misunderstanding between family members of different age ranges usually leading to fighting. All the women in TJLC suffer from conflict with their Daughters or Mothers, all caused by lack of communication and cultural understanding. Because of growing up with two different cultures and struggling to connect them, mother/daughter conflict is common in Chinese American families with immigrant parents.
The traditional Chinese culture strongly differs from American-Chinese culture. Asian cultures value self control and restraint …show more content…
In this story a huge cause of mother-daughter conflict is a lack of cultural understanding. The “Daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English,”(Tan 40) are just one of the examples of cultural misunderstanding between the families. All of the daughters felt controlled by their mothers and the mothers felt like their daughters didn't listen to them, like they were invisible and had no voice. All of the daughters experience low self-esteem, depression or other mental health issues connected to the strain on their relationships with their mothers. Rose was insecure and that lead to her having no voice in her marriage. Waverly experiences anxiety whenever she thinks of having a disagreement with her mother or her mother ruining her relationship with Rich. Being unable to fluently speak the same language isn’t the only reason for a lack of communication between the women and their mothers. All the women and their mothers have difficult truly understanding each other because they don’t share the same experiences so they believe the other won’t comprehend what they’re saying, that leads to an even bigger gap in their
The traditional Chinese culture strongly differs from American-Chinese culture. Asian cultures value self control and restraint …show more content…
In this story a huge cause of mother-daughter conflict is a lack of cultural understanding. The “Daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English,”(Tan 40) are just one of the examples of cultural misunderstanding between the families. All of the daughters felt controlled by their mothers and the mothers felt like their daughters didn't listen to them, like they were invisible and had no voice. All of the daughters experience low self-esteem, depression or other mental health issues connected to the strain on their relationships with their mothers. Rose was insecure and that lead to her having no voice in her marriage. Waverly experiences anxiety whenever she thinks of having a disagreement with her mother or her mother ruining her relationship with Rich. Being unable to fluently speak the same language isn’t the only reason for a lack of communication between the women and their mothers. All the women and their mothers have difficult truly understanding each other because they don’t share the same experiences so they believe the other won’t comprehend what they’re saying, that leads to an even bigger gap in their