Mother Daughter Relationship In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

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Once Jing-mei came to the realization that Suyuan did love her the two finally talk when Suyuan gives her the piano, “So she surprised me. A few years ago she offered to give me the piano, for my thirtieth birthday. I had not played in all those years. I saw the offer as a sign of forgiveness, a tremendous burden removed”(Tan 143). Her mother replies, No, this your piano," she said firmly. "Always your piano. You only one can play" after Jing-mei asks if she was sure and won’t her father and mother miss the piano. All they needed to do was communicate Suyuan didn’t want Jing-mei to be a genius, but wanted her to realize she has the potential to be. Suyuan forgave her daughter’s behavior, but it took Jing-mei a while to forgive her mother. Jing-mei fully forgave her mother once she met her two sisters. Of course, it was a little bit too late, but …show more content…
More importantly, we also need to communicate with our loved ones, significant others, acquaintances, co-workers instead of holding it in. We don’t know when those close to us will go, and it’s best to resolve issues so you can be at peace with yourself. People tend to hold grudges to spite the other person and don’t value the art of communicating. Communicating can resolve a lot of issues and help repair your relationship or interaction with a person. After she got rid of the grudge Jing-mei became much more happier and confident. In the beginning of The Joy Luck Club she didn’t feel adequate to take her mother place. However, eventually she realized by going to China to see her two sisters that she is her mother they share similarities. The animosity and doubt she felt before is gone all it took was forgiving her mother and believing in herself. With that I leave you with a quote by Charlotte Brontë “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering

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