喜福会中母爱主题的文化阐释毕业论文(编辑修改稿)

喜福会中母爱主题的文化阐释毕业论文(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

s. They cannot accept this kind of love because they are strongly influenced by American individualism. They cannot bear their mothers‟ arbitrariness and criticism no longer. Some of them openly say “no” to their mothers. Jingmei, for example, voices her strong protest: “I won‟t let her change me, I promised myself. I won‟t be what I‟m not” (Tan 117). She even takes radical actions against her mother. In order to disappoint her mother intentionally, she discontinues her college life. And for Waverly, when her mother shows her off in the stores again and again, she can‟t help shouting out her anger at her mother: “Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, why don‟t you learn to play chess?” (Tan 81). The daughters can never understand their mothers on this aspect. Third, they care too much for their daughters‟life. The Chinese parents hope that their offspring will have a happy life. Even if their child or children get married, they will still pay much attention to their marital life, and want to make sure that their offspring have a happy life. For the Joy Luck Club mothers, their care and love can be reflected in the assistance they provide their daughters to solve their marriage problems. They never hesitate to help their daughters when their daughters have marriage problems. They try their best to pull their daughters out of troubles. Both Rose and Lena marry Americans. In front of their American husbands, they have a sense of inferiority. Rose does not make any decision on anything. Instead, she lets her husband decide because she believes her husband‟s decision is always better. Gradually, she begins to lose charms to her husband who believes that she is shouldering off responsibility. He even proposes a divorce. Crisis also exists in Lena‟s marriage. They fight to solve the problems, but they are too weak to work out a solution. At this critical moment, their mothers do not walk away from them but try their best to help their daughters. Anmei encourages Rose to speak up, “Why do you not speak up for yourself? Why can you not talk to your husband?” (Tan 176). When Rose takes her mother‟s advice and does speak up for herself, she not only astounds her arrogant husband, but also saves her marriage. Yingying shows her daughter what disastrous consequences would happen if she continues to ignore the imbalance between her and her husband. In this way, she reminds her daughter to take immediate actions to get rid of the imbalance in her marriage. From the assistance that their mothers provide them, the two daughters feel the deep love as well as the powerful strength of their Chinese mothers, although sometime they may feel annoyed. Rose finally realizes that her mother is more enthusiastic and helpful than an American psychiatrist in pulling her out of psychological troubles. The American psychiatrist only makes her feel “hulihutu”. As for Lena, she finds out that her mother loves her better even than her American husband because her mother still clearly remembers that she never eats icecream while her husband knows nothing about it even though he has been married to her for many years. From this aspect, the Joy Luck Club mothers give their daughters a lot of help and fort. In fact, the maternal love of the Joy Luck Club mothers exists almost everywhere. The four daughters e to realize that their mothers are always loving them in every possible situation. They find out that their mothers would express maternal love at any moment. At the crab dinner, Suyuan would not let her daughter Jingmei pick the crab with a broken leg after every guest has taken away the good ones. In Suyuan‟ eyes, a crab with a broken leg is a symbol of bad luck. She does not want her daughter to suffer from bad luck. In order to protect Jingmei from bad luck, when there are only two crabs in the plate, Suyuan picks the one with a broken leg for herself, and gives her daughter the better one. Again, the maternal love of a Chinese mother is vividly shown here. The mothers would always protect their daughters and make any sacrifice for them at any moment. In all, the maternal love that the Joy Luck Club mothers show to their daughters is brim with Chinese culture. In the beginning, because their daughters don‟t know anything about their mothers‟ motherland culture, they cannot understand their mothers, but after hearing their mothers‟ experiences in China, and sensing their mothers‟ sincere love, they begin to understand and accept their mothers. Although they have been soaked in the American culture, the same blood of the Chinese people in their bodies and their mothers‟ love reminds them that they cannot deny their mothers‟ culture. III. Cultural Dialogue, Communication and Understanding Because of the constant maternal love of the Joy Luck Club mothers, the daughters begin to understand and appreciate their mothers and the Chinese culture that their mothers represent. They begin to have cultural dialogue and munication with their mothers. Although they don‟t have any special dialogue or discussion about the Chinese culture, the Joy Luck Club mothers try to grasp every chance to tell their daughters the knowledge about China. When Waverly and her mother have a dialogue about Genghis Khan, Taiyuan is mentioned. Waverly misunderstands it as Taiwan, her mother corrects her instantly, “I was born in China, in Taiyuan. Taiwan is a province of China.” (Tan 167). She doesn‟t want her daughter misunderstand her motherland. On another occasion when some boys in Waverly‟s class say Chinese people do Chinese torture, her mother corrects her daughter, “Chinese people do many things. Chinese people do business, do medicine, and do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.” (Tan 73). Lindo says these words because she doesn‟t want her daught。