Amy Tan A Pair Of Tickets Summary

Psychoanalysis is a theory based on the assumption that, no behavior is accidental. All the behaviors that people have originate from the experiences that they went through in the past. Therefore, Psychoanalytic criticism is arguing either positively or negatively on the reason why people exhibit certain behaviors in their lives. The voice of a mother and daughter is one of the subjects that feminist scholars have critically looked at. Scholars have captured the issue of western feminists with the literature of matrilineage. Amy Tan in her scholarly works has written stories on Chinese Ladies who went through great suffering in their past life, and this has really affected their present life. Hence, this article will look at the voice of a mother and feminist subjectivity from a psychoanalytic perspective. Basing on the story A Pair of Tickets by Amy Chan, through psychoanalytic criticism, this paper explores the techniques that the author uses to expose the experiences of the Joy luck mothers in China, and how these experiences shape their present characters, as well as their daughters’ lives.

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The main reason for the feeling of disfranchisement by these Chinese mothers is that they feel inferior because of the disparities in their lifestyles with the people of American origin. This disparity arises from their identities and their widened difference in cultural perspectives. Another reason is their use of language; there are several instances in which the mothers cannot articulate the English words correctly; hence, one finds it had to know what they actually mean (Igeleke et al. 237). Even their American daughters find it had to understand what their mothers say in their broken English that is affected by their first