Joy+Luck+Club+Outline+tiffanykim

Examine to what degree has fulfilled the American Dream between mother and daughter pair. How does the importance and/or definition of the American Dream change between generations?  Mother-Daughter Pair: Suyuan and Jin Mei -Suyuan comes to a foreign country, US from her motherland, China in order to pursuit happiness and achieve higher social position -Jin Mei hears her mother’s story at Joy Luck Club from her mother’s friends -Jin-Mei decides to achieve her mother’s dream of finding her lost twins in China -Jin Mei takes this action in a different perspective of her mother Concepts -mothers tend to desire their daughters to achieve dreams that they did not achieve -although daughters have their own desire to do something in future, sometimes, they fulfill their mother’s wishes in a ways of their own American Dream -Wanting to live their lives as they want to live. -Having freedom