Joy Luck Club Kitchen God's Wife Analysis

After reading Tan’s novels, readers has to come to the conclusion that, in order to achieve a balance between- the world conditions, one cannot only be supportive to the New American ways and rejects the Old Chinese ways. The daughter’s initially could not accept their Chinese tradition after understanding their cultural reconciliation they realize that both the conditions are very important for establishing their life. Similarly, in case of husband and wife relationship, Tan brings out the patriarchal system. In Joy Luck Club and Kitchen God’s Wife novel, Tan typically portrays the male dominating characters of Ted and Wen Fu, while she escorts her female characters Rose and Weili at the end by regaining self-respect from the male dominant society and starting a new life of self-assertiveness. In Joy Luck Club, Rose marries Ted, who typically shows his patriarchal male dominance, while Rose completely becomes an obeying wife, but Tan plots the conditions to become worse that Rose wanted divorce from her husband and she started

Although part of that process of negotiation occurs on the level of mother– daughter relationships, what ultimately reconnects the mothers and daughters are not their genetic ties but rather certain parallel experiences as women marked by their Chinese heritage mainly experiences of patriarchal oppression within familial relationships, racially marked oppression within the American culture, and the difficult negotiation of a Chinese American identity. Moreover, the parallels between the four mother–daughter relationships and the existence of The Joy Luck Club as a community that encompasses and at times helps to negotiate these relationships highlights an interdependence that extends beyond the mother–daughter