I finally finished Joy Luck Club!!! SUCH A GOOD
BOOK. Maybe my favorite book ever. Not even kidding. So I thought it would be
really good to write about what points of view are missing. Since this entire
book is based around points of view of mothers their daughters, it was really
hard to come up with what one important one could be. But I finally decided on
one, Jing-Mei's mother.
In the very first chapter when Jing-Mei is introduced, it is clear
that her mother died many years before. This is really different from the rest
of the stories, because the rest are completely about the different views of
the mothers and daughters. The absence of Jing-Mei's mother's perspective adds
a lot to the story. It really made me think about why Jing-Mei was in the book
at all, let alone two chapters more than all the other characters. She appears
to be the main character, but she is lacking this one huge, important feature.
Although Jing-Mei's mother's perspective is not shown directly,
you can see how her opinions and customs lived on through Jing-Mei. There is
only one chapter that shows a time when her mother was alive. In this chapter,
it reveals a lot about how her mother acts and what she believes. Jing-Mei may
not agree with these beliefs as a child, but as an adult you can't help but
notice the similarities between her and her mother.
I think that Amy Tan excluded Jing-Mei's mother's
perspective to create this whole, completely different side of the book. All
the other stories include the perspectives of mothers and daughters, and the
relationships between them, but once you take away one of their mothers, you
get a different feeling about them. Like they need help. Maybe that's not the
right word. Does anyone see what I'm getting at?!
<3 Lulu
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