Joy Luck Club Mothers and Daughters
Add details to these descriptions as you read. You do not need to record every detail – just the most essential plot events
from each chapter. In the shaded box below each mother/daughter pair, record the source of the conflict between the two.
Jing-mei (June)
Woo
The Joy Luck Club,
Two Kinds,
Best Quality, and
A Pair of Tickets
Copywriter at an ad agency, the main narrator of the story
Suyuan Woo
Suyuan’s story is
told by her daughter,
Jing-Mei (June).
June’s mother, who dies before the novel starts; she is the founder of the Joy
Luck Club
Source of conflict for this mother/daughter pair:
An-mei Hsu
Scar and
Magpies
A member of the Joy Luck Club
Rose Hsu Jordan
Half and Half and
Without Wood
An-mei Hsu’s daughter who is getting divorced
Source of conflict for this mother/daughter pair:
Lindo Jong
The Red Candle and
Double Face
A member of the Joy Luck Club
Waverly Jong
Rules of the Game
and
Four Directions
Lindo’s daughter, a tax attorney, divorced with a daughter, engaged to be
married
Source of conflict for this mother/daughter pair:
Ying-ying St. Clair
The Moon Lady and
Waiting between the
trees
A member of the Joy Luck Club
Lena St. Clair
Lena – The Voice
from the Wall
Lena – Rice
Husband
Ying-ying’s daughter, an architect who designs “theme restaurants
Source of conflict for this mother/daughter pair: