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The purpose of this thesis is to probe the family problems
which occurred in the four immigrant families in The Joy Luck
Club and discover a key for solving these problems.This thesis
is divided into four chapters and seven sections. In chapter
one, I portray the struggle of early Chinese immigrants in
America, and discuss how negative stereotypes of Chinese
developed. Then I discuss the popularity of Chinese American
literature in recent years and analyzes its dominant subject
matters. In addition, I also present some literature reviews. In
chapter two, I separately discuss the four mothers and four
daughters' marital problems in terms of culture: eastern
Confucianism and American feminism. In chapter three, I depict
the mother-daughter relationship; I show how Tan portrays how
mother-daughter conflicts occur and how they become resolved.
Chapter four discusses the immigration of Chinese to the many
corners of the globe in their search for a better life. Because
different places have different cultures and customs, adapting
to different circumstances can be a tangled problem. These
problems include language, marriage, and family ethics. I hopee
this study could offer a key to these problems.
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