Amy Tan’s novel Joy Luck Club, illustrate the life of four Chinese mothers and daughters and also the conflict between Chinese and American culture.

Even if they all are Chinese, the daughters are born and raised in America, they don’t have the same miserable, desperate and hard life as there mother had back in China. The point of view of the mothers and daughters is very different in the story. All the daughters think about if their Chinese culture might have created problems for them, neither of the daughters can deny their mother nor their culture, but they all do have some issues about their mother attitude and ambition. For example Jing-Mei she was forced to play piano, “my mother believed you could be anything you want in America” (p.132: Two Kinds) and show the talent and the concern that she didn’t had, and also she was always compared with Waverley’s success. Even if Waverley was successful in chess game she also had problems with her mothers affected conduct, "Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess.” ( p.99: Rules of the Game). Of course Jing-Mei and Waverly are not the only one to suffer their mothers ambition for their future but they are the one whom mothers were competing in a secret and discreet way. This shows the Chinese personality mothers.
Beside these two cases the other personalities that Chinese mothers have are that they don’t want their daughter to marry an American man because they think that they are not good enough for their daughters or anything else (p.167: Four Directions), they want Chinese groom in their family. Waverly want to introduce her boyfriend Rich with her mother and tell her that they will get married but she is scared of her mother’s reaction because her first husband Marvin was American and they divorced because he didn’t match to the Chinese culture.