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第二篇：An analysis of the image of Chinese mothers in The Joy Luck Club 喜福会中华裔母亲形象研究2

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An analysis of the image of Chinese mothers in The Joy Luck

Club

1. Introduction.

1.1 a Brief Summary of The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club, one of the best-sellers in America at that time, was the beginning of Tan’s fame. The book describes the twists and turns of the four Chinese women, who immigrate to America at the beginning of the Chinese Liberation War. Mothers and their American-born girls experience different stories that seem unique. However, their fates are ironically similar indeed. Four mothers migrate to America from China in the 1940s, bearing their misery and traditions of the Old China. At that time, America is the paradise in their mind, and they hope their daughters would never repeat their miserable experiences in the Old China any more. The mothers make plans for the girls’ future. However, this is really frivolous and unfounded to the American-born daughters. Since they hold their own ideas and are not willing to split the differences, deep contradictions haunt. Different stories of the mothers and their daughters, however, have the same themes behind. The psychological estrangement, feeling collision, love and complaint between the mothers and their daughters fill the readers with myriad emotions.

1.2 Amy Tan’s Double Identity

Just as the offspring of the immigrants described in The Joy Luck Club, the

writer Tan has double identity. On one hand, as a baby of a Chinese immigrant, Tan is edified of Chinese culture by her mother’s stories, thus she is by instinct a woman of Chinese cultural awareness. On the other hand, she is the second generation of the immigrants, America-born. Her life witnesses the classic American style. America, an immigrant society, is a “melting pot”. How to treat the conflict between the traditional culture and the mainstream culture, which may be recognized as an attempt of cultural identification as well, is a major theme in the books written by the Chinese-American writers. In The Joy Luck Club, Tan establishes a specific perspective for historic observation and cultural incorporation, according to her personal memory.

The Chinese ethnic group , confronts the dilemma of two different cultures. The clash of the mother culture and foreign culture prevents the group from transcending the rules of the originally mother culture. Thus, when colliding with the foreign

culture, the cultural gene and rules rooted in the mind manifest themselves in a natural way.

2. Symbols in The Joy Luck Club As one of the artistically expressing means, symbolism is the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. A symbol is an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself, often of a more abstract nature (/wiki/Symbolism). So it can be understood in this way that the symbolism in novel creation is aimed at showing the ideas behind the visible objects or the phenomenon. The purpose of using symbolism is to reveal the soulful secrets and ideas of things and objects.

In The Joy Luck Club, a large quantity use of symbolism shows the traditional Chinese culture, especially of the living situation of the Chinese American family. The Chinese mothers’ adherence to Chinese culture and their parenting of the

daughters give the readers a chance to experience the difference between Chinese and American culture.

Each symbol is a bridge linking the past, now and the future together, keeping the relationship of the two generations in family and achieving the balance of two

different cultures.

2.1 the Joy Luck Club

The joy luck club is the name of a mahjong club, representing the extension of the past memory of the mothers. At the very beginning, the club is founded by Suyun. The shadow of war still looms over the people. To release the inner fear and worry, Suyun and other three women take turns to play the host of regular parties, which is called “the joy luck club” by them. Four mothers play mahjong and at the same time they tell all kinds of interesting stories. They try their best to make foods of blessing names in order to please others and kill time. Good luck is what they expect and also carries their pray for life and expectations.

The joy luck club is a reminder of the youth for the mothers, providing a link to the memory of the Old China and the traditional culture. It seems that they are never fed up with mahjong and what they talk about is, always, “China”. To the mothers, the joy luck club is an important party, while to the daughters , it is all about

confusion and incomprehension. The daughters pay little attention to the joy luck club. However, after hearing the stories of her mother while playing mahjong with other aunts, June finally starts to understand Suyun. The meeting of June with her twin sisters stimulates further understandings of Suyun, and helps June to feel the “family power”. So it can be said that the joy luck club is an extension of the past memory of the mothers and a bridge between two generations, the past and the present, and the eastern and western culture.

2.2 the Feather Coming from afar

The most far reaching symbol in The Joy Luck Club must be the tale at the

beginning of the book.

“The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of

becoming a goose. Then the woman and the swan sailed across an ocean many thousands of li wide, stretching their necks toward America. On her journey she cooed to the swan: ?In America I will have a daughter just like me. But over there nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husband's belch. Over there nobody will look down on her, because I will make her speak only perfect American English. And over there she will always be too full to swallow any sorrow! She will know my meaning, because I will give her this swan—a creature that became more than what was hoped for.?

But when she arrived in the new country, the immigration officials pulled her swan away from her, leaving the woman fluttering her arms and with only one swan feather for a memory. And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Now the woman was old. And she had a daughter who grew up speaking only English and swallowing more Coca-Cola than sorrow. For a long time now the woman had wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather and tell her, "This feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions." And she waited, year after year, for the day she could tell her daughter this in perfect American English.” (Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club: 1)

The swan feather comes from afar brings hope to the mothers and is a symbol for their good wishes. When the woman sails to the United States, she has a dream of having a daughter in the free new country. And the daughter will be judged by others according to her own worth instead of her husband. The woman plans to give the feather of the swan to the daughter and to explain the symbolic meaning. But what a pity, the woman is always waiting for the day to speak the meaning out in perfect English to her daughter.

Suyun pins her hope on June, together with the hope for the twin sisters. June bears a mission of three, so she feels tired and thinks herself as a disappointment. Before going to China, June’s father tells her about the past stories. And June starts to get an idea of why does not Suyun give the feather to her. Suyun breaches her duty to the twin sisters, so she feels shameful to give the feather to June. When June knows this, Suyun has passed away and there leaves only a swan feather for June.