Relationships of Waverly Jong and Jing-mei Woo in The Joy Luck Club Ess

The Relationships of Waverly Jong and Jing-mei Woo in The exult Luck Club Amy burn in her novel The Joy Luck Club presents us with daughters who are striving to place themselves beyond the control of strong get downs and become individuals. Adrienne Rich in her book Of adult female Born calls this splitting from the mother, matraphobia (Rich, 235), and later notes The mother stands for the victim in ourselves, the servile(prenominal) woman, the martyr. Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mothers and, in a do-or-die(a) attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins we perform radical surgery. (Rich, 236) Tan shows us two characters in her novel who consciously split from their mother when they feel unable to claim their true selves. These two characters are Waverly Jong and Jing-mei Woo. Waverlys smash up from her mother comes when she perceives her mothers pride in her ability to play chess organism something that increases her mothers o wn self worth. Waverly tells us I knew it was a mistake to ordinate anything more, but I heard my voice speaking. Wh...