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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis concern with the study of expectations,
hopes, and disappointments of a mother toward her daughter
in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. The discussion is about the
understanding of the mother's background of life which
brings her such expectations and hopes. Further, this
thesis discusses the turning of the mother's expectations
and hopes into disappointments through the conflicts between
her daughter and herself. This thesis also discusses
how they overcome the disappointments. Suyuan, as the
mother, had a bad experience in China in a War Time. She
had to abandon her twins girl babies because she thought
that she would die soon. In fact, she was saved and brought
to the United States. She called her new country, America,
as the land of hopes. There fore, the pushes June: her other
daughter in America, to do as her expectations and hopes.
However, June failed and her failure brings disappointments
to Suvuan. After being told by her father and her aunties
in The Joy Luck Club, June knows t:hat the twin sisters and
she are the 'Long Cherishes Wish' of Suyuan. Finally, June
can feel more closer to Suyuan even though Suyuan had died.