The Joy Luck Club Literary Analysis

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Criticism isn't as bad as it always seems,mostly people think of it instantly as censure,striation,negative judgment e.t.c. In the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan teaches many life lessons to experience with the differences between their mothers and daughters,not every fictional characters story are as compatible to most. Tan argues as each reveal secrets,trying to unravel the certitude about her life the strings become more tangled as unsecured the secrets become. Waverly is the type we hate to love,maybe even love to hate. As to explain, waverly has a strained and unbalanced relationship with her mother by making a show of not taking her mothers advice by saying things like " Don't be so old fashioned ma,im my own person". Here she has stubborn abilities to treat people with no respect. As well as the difference she has in facial expressions don't equal her charisma in others. Which certainty makes her a less likable person. …show more content…

Lena goes through a tough obstacle in life including an unhealthy marriage constantly thinking its a karmic payback to her relationship when she was a child towards Arnold. With her "Chinese eyes" she sees things no other human could see making her very abnormal to certain people. "I saw Devils dancing feverishly beneath a hole I dug". It's well explanatory it can be used as a curse or maybe even a blessing, if yo think about it long enough there's a rational reason it was given to her,not just

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