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Pick at least one mother-daughter pair, and examine to what degree each has fulfilled the American Dream. How does the importance and/or definition of the American Dream change between generations?

After the World War II, immigrants from eastern and western came to America for finding for their true American Dreams, to become rich. The crowded immigrants would lined up through the lines of jobs. They all wanted to gain opportunities which they could not achieve in their motherland. As parents of the family had to adapt into the new environment, they were new to the new circumstances. Since they started to live in the America, their children were also raised in the states. In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, it introduces different perspectives of mothers and daughters about the two opposing backgrounds. The novel, The Joy Luck Club, is based mostly on Chinese family. In the novel the chinese families can be divided into two different parts. Families raised in China or family raised in America were the two distinct among the families in the novel. Those two different kinds of family types counteract each other and create tensions between them. Among all the families that were introduced to the novel, Jung-Mei and Suyuan best exemplifies the family which seeks for the American Dream.

Suyuan always wanted to find her daughter’s talent. After and each chess matches of Waverly had, Suyuan had always decided herself that she would find the right talent for her daughter. After her trials, she had determined she would discover her daughter’s piano skill. Suyuan had put private tutor, Mr. Chong,” and she watched for