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A 5 page essay that contrasts and compares the structure and themes of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club (1989) and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine (1984), which have very similar structures as a novels. Each text offers a series of short stories that collectively relate a coherent saga of generations and relationships. Tan relates the stories of four families and Erdrich focuses on three interconnected families. In both works, the authors portray the tension that arises from conflicting cultural expectations, that is, from being "other" within the context of mainstream culture in terms that primarily dramatizes this as tension between two generations of women. Primarily the writer talks about Tan's short story "Two Kinds" and Erdrich's "Saint Marie." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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short stories that collectively relate a coherent saga of generations and relationships. Tan relates the stories of four families and Erdrich focuses on three interconnected families. In both works, the
authors portray the tension that arises from conflicting cultural expectations, that is, from being "other" within the context of mainstream culture in terms that primarily dramatizes this as tension between
two generations of women. In The Joy Luck Club, this tension is between first generation immigrant mothers from mainland China and that American-born daughters. The Joy Luck mothers
speak little English and have remained culturally "alien" within the context of American society. Each of the mothers desire for their Chinese American daughters the best of life and not
to "duplicate the sad, tragic or restricted lives they and their mothers have known" (Ho 155). However, in their intense desire to see that their daughters lives are different from
their own, they frequently drive them away or alienate them through their demands. Ying-Ying St. Clair expresses the mindset that is shared by all of the mothers toward their daughters
when she says that "I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind
that is part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away from me since" (Tan 242). As
this suggests, the Joy Luck stories largely concern the way that the daughters feel compelled to find their own identities and separate themselves from the often confining expectations of their
mothers. There are dynamic power plays between the mothers and daughters. However, in asserting her own power to subvert the power of her mother, sometimes a daughter finds that she
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