With the help of her mother, An-mei, \Because you must,\she says. \is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.\her opinions, Rose ultimately believes that the \of the mother's words,\and the accumulation of sufficient courage to fight back her overbearing husband:\out of your life and throw me away.\Tan, 1989: 196) Rose expresses her resistance, and she walk out the destiny of the grandmother's tragic fate. She is no longer afraid of her husband not did she remain silent:\fear,he hulihudu( confused).\many years, which shows the emotional and psychological maturity, and self-seeking and well-being of the future. Self-examination consciousness is the condition of feminine consciousness. Only when the female realize that they are under the unfair society condition did they have the demand of change. At the same time, women lean to self-deceit, usually that happens when they negate their potential as a free and creative individual but accept ruled by others. This self-deceit submerge the female subject in some extent, which causes the damage in the lay of spiritual.
2.3.3 Lena St. Clair
Lena is caught in an unhappy marriage to Harold Livotny. Harold insists that the couple keep separate bank accounts and use a balance sheet to detail their monetary debts to one another. Although he believes that this policy will keep money out of the relationship, it in fact accomplishes the opposite, making money and obligation central to Lena and Harold's conjugal life. Lena has inherited her mother Ying-ying's belief in superstition and deems herself incapable reversing what is \But when her daughter Lena encounters the marriage problems, she determines to break the silence and tells her daughter all of her experience in China. She has been awared why she was so agitated and disturbed, and she decides to take action, \don't know… I don't know. Everything…the way we account for everything. What we share. What we don't share. I'm so tired of it, adding things up, subtracting, making it come out even. I'm sick of it.\She talks to her husband,\need to think about what our marriage is really based on…not this balance sheet, who owes who what.\
3. The Reason and Embodiments of Female Struggling
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3.1 The Main Reason for the Different Experience of Struggle
Both mothers and daughters, they discover their sense of self-worth by their different ways after suffering the pain as they are in the social role of traditional female, they should break with tradition, and seek the way to their fate instead of passive waiting. However, what lead to the differences of their experience about struggling against fatality? Different Cultural Identities of Female Role
Each of the major characters expresses anxiety over her inability to reconcile her Chinese heritage with her American surroundings. While the daughters in the novel are genetically Chinese( except for Lena who is half Chinese) and have been raised in mostly Chinese households, they also identify with the feel at home in modern American culture. Wavely, Rose, and Lena all have white boyfriends or husbands, and they regard many of their mothers' customs and tastes as old-fashioned or even ridiculous. Most of them have spent their childhoods trying to escape their Chinese identities: Lena would walk around the house with her eyes opened as far as possible so as to make them look European. Jing-mei denied during adolescence that she had any internal Chinese aspects, insisting that her Chinese identity was limited only to her external features. Lindo meditates that Waverly would have clapped her hands for joy during her teen years if her mother had told her that she did not look Chinese.
However, as they are mature, the daughters begin to sense that their identities are incomplete and become interested in their Chinese heritage. Because when they are in trouble, they are always helped by their mothers in Chinese heritage. Waverly speaks wishfully about blending in China and becomes angry when Lindo notes that she will be recognized instantly as a tourist. One of Jing-mei's greatest fears about her trip to China is not that others will recognize her as American, but that she herself will fail to recognize any Chinese elements within herself. And of the four mothers, Lindo expresses the most anxiety over her cultural identity. Having been recognized as a tourist during her recent trip to China, she wonders how America has changed her. She has always believed in her ability to shift between her true self and her public self, but she begins to wonder whether her \girl in China, Lindo shows that she does not completely agree with Chinese custom. She agonizes over how to extricate herself from a miserable marriage without dishonoring her parents' promise to her husband's family. While her concern for her parents shows that Lindo does not wish to openly rebel against her tradition, Lindo make a secret promise to herself to remain true to her own desires. This promise shows the value she places on autonomy and personal happiness, two qualities that Lindo associates with American.
All the changes of them is the symbol of culture identity fusion. And that is the significant element why the mothers and daughters have a sharp contrast struggle experience.
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3.2 Different Embodiments of Struggle 3.2.1 Family Concept
The ancient Chinese civilization being effected by geographical factors and Confucianism, it is a relatively closed system of inward-looking cultural circle, and gradually formed the \in The Joy Luck Club like clustering, with strong family values, enclosing themselves in the Chinese world, fearing of the outside world, even refuse American culture by instinct. Chinese people believe that their parents give them birth, and the growth of each step saturated with parental upbringing, so children should obey their parents, treating their parents with filial piety.
However, in the western world, \civilization\and \civilization\has determined that heading for the outside world is the only road to survive, and gradually formed a \patterns of behavior. Children leave their parents automatically to assume their responsibilities and obligations, preferring to be alone, thus, Americans are indifferent to family values, upholding personal independence struggle, the development and success. Ethics of the United States emphasizes the equality between people, the relationship between children and parents is equality, and family members have the inviolable rights of individuals, other members have no right to interfere.
Suyuan-Woo plans various genius training program for her daughter, even as a cleaner for a piano teacher in exchange for teaching her daughter, expecting her daughter to become a leading pianist. While Jing-mei regards herself as a American, longing for American ways of living, just being a normal person. When Jing-mei doesn't want to take orders from her mother, Syuan shouts in Chinese,\mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!\Then I wish I wasn't your daughter. I wish you weren't my mother.\talk back to her mother. She though:\Express her strong sense of independence and the autonomy ideas. What the mother said point out the distinction of family in America and China.
3.2.2 Values
In the traditional Chinese culture, the ability of an individual often represents the group values he belongs rather than his individual value. Thus, a person who does bad things would stains his family honor, by contrast, a person who makes achievements would honour to his family. Chinese people uphold that \be interdependence between parents and children. While emphasize independence and encourage individual struggle in American culture. American people prefer to fight in isolation, and enjoy success alone or suffer the failure solely. The conflict of mother—Linda and daughter—Waverly
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is the manifestation of different value between China and America. Mother hopes that her daughter can help her to manifest the value of existence, regarding her daughter's success as their family honor, while her daughter convinces that \After Waverly win the national chess champion, her mother arounds to show off. She detests what her mother does and shouts to her mother:\to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess.\99) Children having a bright future is all mothers' hope. However this desire is so strong that it becomes a heavy burden to the parents and children. The daughter becomes famous, of course, the mother would be very pride. But the daughter advocates personal struggle of American culture in this novel, and believes that her success is purely because of her own effort, having nothing to do with her mother. Waverly intends to confront Lindo by sacrificing chess, but her move only hurts herself.
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