The Joy Luck Club

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In the book, “The Joy Luck Club,” there are many conflicts that impact the story, which includes cultural collision between Chinese and Chinese-American cultures. Jing-mei’s mother, Suyuan, travailed from a path full of adversities. Suyuan represents the Chinese culture while Jing-mei represents the Chinese-American. Throughout the book, Jing-mei comes to realize how a war devastated and greatly impacted her life from a story told by Suyuan.
The struggles that both Suyuan and Jing-mei go through can show the conflict of identity crisis and the difficulty of cultural conversion. It represents June’s (Jing-Mei’s) struggle to confidently comprehend Chinese and to also convey her mother’s melancholy story. Similarly, while her

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