Joy Luck Club Jing Mei Character Analysis

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Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, explains the progress of eight women that struggle to honor their Chinese heritage and family beliefs. Jing-Mei is one main character in this novel that struggles throughout the text to respect her Chinese culture and also her family beliefs. In the Joy Luck Club Jing-mei learns great lessons from her mother, which caused her to learn an important lesson that gradually changed her from being confused about who she truly is to being understandable of who she truly is. Early in the “Joy luck club” , Jing-mei mother dies in San Francisco. After her mother dies Jing-Mei has to take on a big responsibility, which is to take a place in a club called the Mahjong club that her mother started in 1949 when she immigrated to the US from China. …show more content…
They are on their way to meet Jing-Mei’s mother’s two daughters from a past marriage. Nobody had heard from the girls until after their mother had died. Aunt Lindo had received a letter from the girls. Jing-Mei was suppose to tell her sisters that their mother had died, but she felt she didn’t know enough about her mother. Now Jing-Mei decided that she wanted to go see her sisters in China. When Jing-Mei first gets to China see meets up with other relatives besides her two sisters. She feels like she is Chinese already. Jing-Mei thinks to herself, “But today I realize I’ve never really known what it means to be Chinese”(Tan 268). This shows that she interacts with people in a weird way. She feels confused about who she really is. After she had seen other relatives she finally meets her sisters and find out who she truly is, “And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood”(Tan 288). When Jing-Mei stated this she began to understand who she really was and understands why she is this way. She understands that her family completes her and her
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