remarkably high expectations for their children that are hard to live up to. The notion that the child’s success is primarily the parent’s responsibility could stem from the mother associating her own worth with her child’s performance. If a child is not particularly proficient in a specific subject, the child not only feels obligated to excel, but the parent may also feel the burden. Amy Tan sheds insight on Chinese parenting:” ‘parents shouldn’t criticize children. They should encourage instead. You
In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, many of the older Chinese women pass on certain attitudes, or aspects of viewpoints about women and their roles to their American daughters. Eight women, each mother-daughter pairs, narrate the novel. Their common getaway is the Joy Luck Club where each of the members play on the Mahjong table, bring foods, and (try) to forget the past, but also make new and better memories together. The Joy Luck Club was formed in San Francisco in the 1940’s by four Chinese