Topic > Story Analysis by Amy Tan - 1041

These are "Duble Face", "Waiting between the Trees" and "The Joy Luck Club". They all have the same connections and demonstrate that daughters cannot fall apart their mothers. Mothers witness how their daughters grow up, feel the desire to protect them, teach them how to lose your innocence, but not your hope. The correlation between mother and daughters is one of the elements that brings Jing-mei closer to her family and to her Chinese heritage. As Jing-mei learns more about her mother and sisters, she indeed realizes how crucial it is for her to meet her other half that her mother had always dreamed of. Jing-mei realizes that her mother's name meant something very important that needed to be accomplished she meets her twin sister and says, "I know we all see it, even if we don't speak, together we look like our mother's mouth." his eyes, his surprising gaze and finally his long-cherished desire (Woodson