Is The Joy Luck Club a classic?
The Joy Luck Club (novel)
| First edition | |
|---|---|
| Author | Amy Tan |
| LC Class | PS3570.A48 J6 1989 |
Similarly one may ask, what is the point of the Joy Luck Club?
In many ways, the original purpose of the Joy Luck Club was to create a place to exchange stories. Faced with pain and hardship, Suyuan decided to take control of the plot of her life.
Consequently, is The Joy Luck Club movie the same as the book?
For the most part characters are kept the same, no major differences in that regard. The movie allows the story to flow in a less confusing way. The book makes it difficult to remember who is who. The stories are told in no apparent order or correlation between each mother-daughter pair.
Throughout The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan tells stories of how mothers use the misfortunes in their lives, to try to teach their daughters about life. They try to make their daughters' lives as easy and problem free as possible. However, the daughters do not see this as an act of love, but rather as an act of control.