Characters
Who gave up her twin daughters in China?
Suyuan Woo, Jing-mei's mother.
How many stories does The Joy Luck Club contain?
16
who is the author of the Joy Luck Club?
Amy Tan
What is the main focus of The Joy Luck Club?
To show the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, and the bond that they have despite generational and cultural conflicts.
Who are the 4 mothers in Joy Luck Club?
Lindo Jong, An-Mei Hsu, Suyuan Woo, and Ying Ying St. Clair
Who was bound to an arranged at the age of two?
Lindo Jong
What game do the members of the Joy Luck Club play?
Mah jong
What year was the book published?
1989
What are three themes in The Joy Luck Club?
mother-daughter relationships, miscommunication, and cultural identities.
Who are the 4 daughters in The Joy Luck Club?
Jing-mei "June" Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, and Lena St. Clair.
Who is Jing-mei’s father?
Canning Woo
True or False: All of the woman from the Joy Luck Club are immigrants.
True
What year was the movie released?
1993
How is identity portrayed in The Joy Luck Club?
The daughters struggle to have a different identity in contrast to their mother.
How did An-mei get her scar?
Four-year-old An-mei reached out for her mother and accidentally tipped a boiling hot pot of soup onto herself.
Why does Jing-mei go to China?
Jing-mei flies to China with her father to unite with her long-lost half-sisters. The twins, Chwun Hwa and Chwun Yu, were separated from their mother, Suyuan, as babies in war-torn China.
How many women were in the Joy Luck Club prior to Suyuan’s death?
4
Was the Joy Luck Club fiction or non-fiction?
It is fiction.
What does Lena’s precariously-placed vase in the story “Rice Husband” symbolize?
Her marriage.
What does the ghost symbolize in The Joy Luck Club?
People who cannot speak freely or who cannot be talked about.
Which character is frustrated by a language barrier with her husband, who never learned to speak fluent Chinese?
Ying-Ying St. Clair
What is the theme of the Joy Luck Club?
The complex relationship between mothers and daughters, and the inherent bond that's always between them despite generational and cultural conflicts.
How many different perspectives do they show in the Joy Luck Club?
Seven narrative perspectives.
Which theme is illustrated by the anecdote about An-mei’s mother putting her own flesh into her mother’s soup?
Sacrifices for love
Why did “the aunties” give Jing-mei $1200 in an envelope?
The aunties gave Jing-Mei $1200 so she could go to meet her sisters in China and inform them of their mother's death.