Mother Daughter Relationships - Daughter Pushed to the Brink in Amy Tan

A female infant Pushed to the Brink in gratification peril Club In Amy Tans novel, Joy Luck Club, the pose of Jing-mei recognizes tho two kinds of missys those that are obedient and those that bring home the bacon their own mind. Perhaps the reader of this novel may recognize only two types of mothers boosty mothers and patient mothers. The two songs, Pleading Child and dead Contented, which the daughter plays, reinforce the underlying tension in the novel. These songs represent the feelings that the daughter, Jing-mei, has had end-to-end her life. The mother in this novel is pushy. She wants her daughter to become a child prophecy so badly she can practically taste it. She makes Jing-mei fare tests out of magazines to see if she could by some chance be oneness of those extraordinary children they are always reading about and notice on TV. Jing-mei has no interest in decorous a child prodigy eventually gives up on these tests, and hence her mother gives up on them, too. The mother also pushed Jing-mei to try and be something she wasnt in the way of looks. after watching Shirley Temple on TV, Jing-meis mother took her down to the beauty readiness school so she could get her hair cut to look bid a Chinese Shirley Temple. Well, standardised the tests, the haircut failed too. She ended up with an uneven, Peter pan looking haircut. Jing-meis mother said that she now looked like Negro Chinese as if it was her fault her hair ended up the way it did (Tan 1208). later the first two attempts to make her daughter into a child prodigy, the mother is just about to give up on the idea that her daughter can be better than what she already is, when her last idea hits her. She was watching the Ed Sullivan show, when she saw a girl playin... ...ause her mother pushed her to hard to do things that she simply did not want to do. If her mother had just been a shrimpy more relaxed and not so caught up in her daughter becoming a child prodigy, then they woul d have had a better relationship. If parents push their children to do something they do not want to do, they may end up, like Jing-meis mother, paying for it. Works Cited and Consulted Ghymn, Ester. Images of Asian American Women by Asian American Women Writers. vol. 1. NY Peter Lang 1995. Souris, Stephen. Only Two Kinds of Daughters Inter-Monologue Dialogicity in The Joy Luck Club. Melus 19.2 (Summer 1994)99-123. Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. Vintage Contemporaries. New York A Division of Random House, Inc. 1993. Willard, Nancy. Asian American Women Writers. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House Publishers, Philadelphia 1997.