"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan: mother and daughter relationships.

The love between mothers and daughters is a sacred sort of love that will never become surpassed on the same type of intimate level. Cardinal Mermillod, Swiss Catholic Priest of mid 1800's said, "A mother's love can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." This quote has precise relevancy to the key theme of: Barriers existing between generations, in Amy Tan's captivating novel, The Joy Luck Club. As …

…sure of showing June all the ways in which she loved her before she died, incidentally June did not understand until after her death. Though Suyuan is dead, her and June have come together in spirit and reconcile there past differences. Through out, each of the three stories in Amy Tan's novel a common idea of a Mothers love, and caring coming together with a mutual understanding makes a perpetual friendship, between Mothers and Daughters.