Chandula Arsakulasuriya

Joy Luck Club is a powerful expression of struggle experienced by the firsr generation Chinese immigrants, specifically young Chinese females to the Uninted States of America. What seems to be the most painful for them to experience is their isolation from their own families; their daughters cannot relate or do not try to relate the culutural bond between the Asian mother and daughter. As a result of this, they both the daughters and mothers seem to love and hate each other for reasons that they are unable even to name. Mother-daughter clash therefore is a theme in the novel.