喜福会joy_luck_club_-conflicts_and_blending_between_american_and_chinese_culture英语毕业论文(编辑修改稿)

喜福会joy_luck_club_-conflicts_and_blending_between_american_and_chinese_culture英语毕业论文(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

You could bee rich. You could bee instantly famous. (The Joy Luck Club ) “Of course you can be prodigy. You can be best anything. (The Joy Luck Club ) Suyuan Woo hoped that her daughter could live up to her expectations. Her daughter being a Chinese Shirley Temple was her first dream. She took her daughter to the image design salon, but unfortunately, it didn39。 t work. Later she began to find other gifts from her daughter, every night she tried to find her daughter’s extraordinary character from the old magazines abandoned by others. When these failed, Suyuan wanted to shape her daughter to be a famous pianist, although she was too poor to afford a piano. Finally she managed to do some cleaning for a retired piano teacher and got the opportunity for her daughter. But her daughter was not pleased。 she wanted to be herself, to be an ordinary person. She defied her mother many times. We could read her grievance from the following paragraph: Why don39。 t you like me the way I am? I am not a genius! I can39。 t play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn39。 t go on TV if you pay me a million dollars! (The Joy Luck Club ) In the traditional Chinese culture, parents wanted the best for their children. They believed that children39。 s success was their success, and they would be very proud. The parents had the right to arrange their life, future and marriage, and children had to respect their parents. Jingmei Woo was looking forward to the freedom of the Western way of life, while her mother insisted to impose the tradition on her. Only the obedient daughter can Conflict and Blending between American Daughters and Their Chinese Mothers 5 stay in this house (The Joy Luck Club ). But her daughter did not think so, she believed she was not a slave to her mother, and this was not China, she had the right to enjoy as much democracy and equality as other white children. After the Piano conflicts, their different modes of thinking caused by different cultural background had lasted for twenty years. They lived with their own values, until Jingmei came back to China, when she began to understand her mother. Conflicts between Anmei Hsu and Rose The main conflict between Anmei Hsu and her daughter lies in confidence. The mother tended to be more confident and selfesteemed as a Chinese. The daughter, however, suffered a sense of inferiority being a Chinese. She disdained the Chinese wisdom and always neglected her mother’s opinions. Rose never believed in her own ideas, so whenever her American husband asked for her opinion, she would reply, “You decide,” or “I don’t care,” or “Either way is fine with me.” with the belief that Chinese people had the views of the Chinese people。 Americans had the views of Americans。 the latter seemed to be better than the former. However, her husband Ted was not happy with this. He criticized that refusing to make decisions meant firstly she had no personality, and secondly she would shoulder none of the responsibilities to avoid any blame. Her mother Anmei Hsu had experienced a miserable childhood, she hoped to educate her daughter with her own lesson. When she was young, she was very timid and dependent on her stepfather, and it was her mother’s death that awakened her, and then she noticed being independent with great courage counts more and refusing to be dictated by others would win more respect from others. So Anmei told Rose that she should stand up bravely and learn to control the destiny of her own marriage. Besides, being a Chinese was not a shame, and each man was irreplaceable. But Rose turned a deaf ear to her at the beginning. With this prejudice to Chinese, when Rose’s marriage came across difficulties, she preferred to confide them to her friends, and even a psychiatrist rather than her mother, which made her mother very sad and depressed. And they had a heat quarrel on this issue. Although at first, Rose looked down upon her mother’s opinion and would not take her advice into consideration. But in the end, fortunately, Rose adopted her mother’s advice. She made her first own decision during her marriage span and refused to sign the divorce agreement. It was a big shock to Ted, and he discovered Rose’s personality and confidence from her rejection and decided not to divorce her. Conflict and Blending between American Daughters and Their Chinese Mothers 6 Conflicts between Lindo Jong and Waverly The main conflict between Lindo Jong and her daughter first lies in showing off her daughter39。 s achievements to others, which brought great aversion to her daughter. And the second one is what is the proper degree of interfering children’s private affairs. To get rid of the torture of old China, Lindo came to the United States to seek a better material life, and more opportunities for her kids. Lindo Jong hoped her children to be a perfect bination and she never expected that blending was impossible. Lindo Jong hoped that her daughter could be outstanding, and she tried to train her daughter to be a chess master. Proud of her daughter39。 s achievements, she often showed it off to the outsiders, which brought strong aversion to Waverly. After a heated quarrel, their relationship began to tense up. Although after the Chess Conflicts Lindo Jong did not intervene in her daughter39。 s life directly, still in her daughter39。 s marriage, she would not stand by. In the Chinese tradition, parents have rights to interfere with this matter for the good of their kids. When Lindo Jong knew that Waverly was older than her boyfriend, she felt negative to him because there was a Chinese saying would rather find a male ten years older to female one year older (The Joy Luck Club ). Besides, he was a white American, to which she was instinctively。