... life and ambitions onto their children." (Tan). Tan is well known for portraying mother-daughter relationships in a lot of her novels. The most popular story that depicts the mother-daughter relationships is "The Joy Luck Club". The major conflict in this story is between Jing-Mei and her mother. Ever since Jing-Mei was a little girl, her mother always believed she could be a prodigy. Her mother would ... could never be anything she wanted to be, she could only be herself. There are similar mother daughter relationships in Tan's first novel "The Joy Luck Club". Walter Shear states, "In ...

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