Comparing Tradition and Change in Amy Tans The Kitchen Gods Wife and

Tradition and Change in The Kitchen Gods Wife and The Joy Luck Club Throughout the novels The Kitchen Gods Wife and The Joy Luck Club, author Amy suntan conveys the message of tradition and change. from each one novel contains sections about draws talking and relating their stories to their daughters. The daughters in The Joy Luck Club hear stories about loss and happiness, and joy and hate. Each of the four mothers tell these stories to their daughters as lessons, or offerings for their futures. They tell the stories to show how lucky their daughters have been, yet how their lives will never be the same as their witness lives have been. They try to help their daughters on some level with these stories. Yet they comprehend the fact that they could never understand their mothers. The main character, Pearl, in The Kitchen Gods Wife negotiation about her life and her mother. Pearl, and her mother Winnie, the other half of the mother/daughter pair attend a funeral as Pearl narrates . They then go to Winnies home, as Winnie dotes on Pearl and her two daughters. Pearls heart breaks as she notices all the small intricacies of her mother, and all the little things that her mother does to illustrate her love. As Pearl and her family drive onward from her mothers house, Winnie begins to narrate, to her daughter about her life, her hardships, and her loves. Through these two novels, the five mother/daughter pairs and the perception of mother to daughter, the theme of mother daughter relationships is distinctly portrayed. Pearl views her mother in many different ways. Often, through her mothers movements, or appearance, she will view her mother as fragile, yet strong and knowing, ...I imagine my mothers parchment like skin, furious... ...ire. Amy Tan. The Bloomsbury ingest to Womens Literature. Pg1065 Great Britian Bloomsbury Publishing, 1992. Cheng, Scarlet. Amy Tan Redux. Belles Letters. Fall, 1991, pp 15, 19.(on GaleNet) Davidson, Cathy N. and Linda Wagner-Matli n. Amy Tan. The Oxford Companion to Womens Writing in the United States. Pg 869. New York Oxford University Press, 1995. Graham, Judith. Amy Tan. Current Biography Yearbook. pg559 New York H.W. Wilson Company, 1992. See, Carolyn. Drowning in America, Starving for China. in Los Angeles Times hand Review. March 12, 1989, pp1, 11.(on GaleNet) Shear, Walter. Generational Differences and the Diaspora in The Joy Luck Club. in <>Critique. Volume 34, No3, Spring 1993 pp 193-99.(on GaleNet) Willard, Nancy. Tiger Spirits. in The Womens Review of Books. Vol.6, Nos. 10-11, July 1989, pg12.(on GaleNet)