Novel review—《The Joy Luck Club》
When I read the novel，I was always thinking that what the novel wants to tell us.My answer is “heritage”，by a kind of gene of culture，by describing four mothers’ and their daughters’ stories，which are inundated with generation gap，great differences of civilization between east and west，bad custom of old China，and so on.
We can find that almost every story involves a factor—marriage（Does it show that marriage，shares too much proportion of life to Chinese women？），except Su，and almost every marriage has its unfortunate side.But form the bad side，they find who they are，what they really want for life，then just resist the reality no matter it’s women’s low social status of old China，or disagreement due to the difference of culture，bravely.For mothers，they transmit their best hope because of their sorrowful experience when they were young in China.But for a long time，their daughters，however，didn’t understand why their mother were so strict，and couldn’t bear the hope.In view of the culture difference，that is the reason why generation gap grows up.
What makes me impreive and surprising is that，the mother An Mei，told her daughter sadly that she chooses a new kind of educational mode in order to prevent her daughter follow her mother’s footsteps， but it doesn’t works.The fact is her daughter，Rose，still inherits some characteristics of traditional Chinese women：She lose herself after her marriage and ignore her value，which nearly destroy her family.It reminds me of the word “gene” just from here，and it is thus clear that it’s not a good thing for giving blindly，to be a real and complete person maybe more cost-effective.It keeps me thinking that what’s the “hope” represents on earth，when June comes back to China to see her sisters and carry to them.Maybe something for life—survival and happine.Maybe something about custom，culture，or even，ideology.Just like a saying goes，there are one thousand Hamlet in one thousand readers’ eyes.Who knows，except the author.
