The Relationship Between Mother and Daughter in "The Rule of the Game"

1114 Words3 Pages

“The Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan is about Waverly Jong mother taught her the art of invisible strength when she was six years old, saying that it is a strategy for winning arguments and respect. At Christmas Waverly and her brothers received gifts from donations of members from another church. Waverly convinced her brothers, Winston and Vincent, to let her play chess by offering two of her life savers to stand in for the missing pieces. Waverly began playing with Lau Po, an old man who played chess in the park. He taught her many new strategies. Waverly began to attract attention because of her young age, and she became a celebrity within the Chinatown community. Waverly's mother would force her to go to the market with her, presenting her in all the shops. One day exasperated Waverly yelled at her mother on the street, telling her that she was embarrassed by her constant bragging. The theme for “The Rules of the Game” is the dynamics relationship between mother and daughter. The first citing from this story states about the dynamics relationships between mother and daughter is at the beginning of the story when Waverly was pulling her mother leg telling her that some boy from her class said that Chinese torture people. Then her mother got angry and told Waverly that they do everything and the best is torturing people. "One day, as she struggled to weave a hard-toothed comb through my disobedient hair, I had a sly thought. I asked her,"ma, what is chinese torture?" My mother shook her head.... "Who say this word?" she asked without a trace of knowing how wicked I was being. I shrugged my shoulders and said, "Some boy in my class said Chinese people do Chinese torture." "Chinese people do many things,"she said simpl... ... middle of paper ... ...fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, but this time Tan's focus is narrower and more intense: not the octet of characters and narratives in The Joy Luck Club but a single story encompassing a lineage of three women” (Gray http://www.time.com). In conclusion, all of my book review and article prove that the dynamics relationship between mother and daughter is a major theme in The Rule of the Game. Works Cited 1)Moore, Dolores http://www.helium.com/items/1169129-book-review-the-joy-luck-club-amy-tan-1989 2) Nadeau, Frances A http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter95/Nadeau.html 3) Solomon, Andrew http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/books/review/16solomon.html?_r=1&ref=bookreviews 4) Gray, Paul http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2047321,00.html 4) Wright, B Wright, B.Introduction to Literature.Boston,2011

Open Document