Joy Luck Club
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CHINESE-AMERICAN WOMEN IN AMERICAN CULTURE
In Amy Tan's novel, The , there is one episode, "Waiting Between the Trees," illustrating major concerns facing Chinese-American women. Living with their traditional culture in American society, Chinese-American women suffer the problems of culture conflic ....
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.... was not expected to have her own will and make her own way through life.
The result of this education was a disaster. She was married to a bad man who left her after a short time to follow other women. Her love for him turned to hate, and she killed her unborn baby. This act gave her remorse for all her life since she considered it a murder. Tortured by this incident, she had a mental breakdown, for a period of time, when her second son -- with her second husband, St. Clair -- died at birth ....
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