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In Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club readers are introduced to a group of Chinese mothers and their American daughters, who are battling their inability to translate concepts and sentiments from one culture to another. In the film The Joy Luck Club viewers are introduced to these same women and their struggles. Minus a few minor details in sequence the film seems to be a verbatim adaptation of the novel.
At the start of the novel the first character revealed is Jing-Mei Woo, who is coping with the recent death of her mother to a cerebral aneurysm. Jing-Mei is also dealing with becoming her mother’s replacement in the mahjong game that her mother Suyuan and her aunties played weekly. Suyuan had been attending the meetings of the Joy Luck Club since 1949, shortly after she emigrated from China to San Francisco. Shortly after the Suyuan Woo’s death, the other members of the Joy Luck Club gave Jing-Mei money travel to China so that she could find her mother’s long lost......

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