THE JOY LUCK CLUB The Joy Luck Club is a story about two generations of Chinese American women. The first generation consists of the mothers living in pre-1949 China. These women are Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair. The second generation of daughters born in America are Jing-mei "June" Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, and Lena St. Clair. Each chapter is either a mother or a daughter talking about their …showed first 75 words of 1362 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1362 total…things so easily because they do not want to put the effort in. To watch their daughters be accepted into society when they themselves were not. To watch their daughters face when they tried to talk in broken English back to them. To watch their daughters be ashamed of being Chinese. It must have hurt these mothers' to know that by bringing them to America meant losing something more precious than they ever thought possible.