The Joy Luck Club

Social Psychology
Joy Luck Club
;The Joy Luck Club explores the different mother-daughter relationships between the characters, and at a lower level, relationships between friends, lovers, and even enemies. This movie presents the conflicting views and the stories of both sides, providing the viewer--and ultimately, the characters--with an understanding of the mentalities of both mother and daughter, and why each one is the way she is. The two main themes of the story I will be discussing are the challenges of cultural translation and how story telling can help and influence communicatio…