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| June's Dad's family's home |
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| Scar, Half and Half, Without Wood and Magpies |
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mother in Hsu family
In Scar her Popo died and her mother came to pay respects, cut a piece of her flesh into the soup
In Half and Half Bing dies and An-mei refuses to give up the search for him and seemingly loses her faith
In Magpies An-Mei goes to live with her mother and discovers a life of riches. Her mom commits suicide and, in turn, gives An-Mei a better life. |
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daughter in Hsu family
In Half and Half is told to watch Bing the day he dies. Feels her mother's faith went with him.
In Without Wood stands up to husband as he tries to take the house in the divorce. He made all the descisions in the relationship until one fateful incident when he lost faith in his descisions and wanted Rose to start making them. When she refused he asked for a divorce, thinking she'd bend. But she stands up against him and demands the house. |
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| Location of June's sisters |
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| Where Suyuan fled to from Kweilin, when she lost her daughters |
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| Location of the birth of the Joy Luck Club, where Suyuan lived during the start of the war |
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| Lindo's first husband, refused to sleep with her |
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| Rich man who took in An-Mei's mother as his fourth wife |
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| Horrid woman who pushed An-Mei's mother to her death |
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| Rose's husband (soon to be ex) |
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Jong mother
In The Red Candle was promised to a wealthy family, when her families house was destroyed they left her to go live with her future husband and his family. Her new mother was a bitch. Her husband refused to sleep with her and she was blamed for a lack of children. She made a plan and was set free due to a mix up with the red candle meant to represent the young marriage.
In The Rules of The Game she boasts about Waverly's success in chess due to her pride in her daughter.
In Four Directions is thought to see the worst in everything and not accept Rich, Waverly's fiance.
In Double Face she reveals how she met Tin, her second husband, and how they came to be wed through fortune cookies. |
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Jong daughter
In The Rules of the Game becomes a prodigy at chess and resents her mother's boasting as she feels her mother is trying to claim some of her glory.
In Four Directions she feels her new fiance could never be good enough for her mother and in desperation to get Lindo to accept Rich falls to tears only to find that her mother already knew of Waverly's engagement and is okay with it.
In Double Face shows her mother that the crook in thier nose is something positive, not negative at all. |
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daughter Woo family
In Joy Luck Club learns of her step-sisters and her quest to tell them of their mother's life.
In Two Kinds is pushed to become a prodigy like Waverly and takes on the piano, but does not practice because of her mother's pressure. Is in a talent show and does poorly, embarrassing her family and feeling that she can never be good enough for her mother.
In Best Quality learns that her mother accepts who she is because of the qualities that make her seem weaker, her modesty and selflessness.
In a Pair of Tickets meets her twin step sisters at last after traveling with her father and meeting his family. Fulfills her mother's wish. |
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mother Woo family
In Joy Luck Club tells how she founded the group, as a means of distraction in a hard war. Also how she left her two daughters on the side of the road in her fleeing.
In Two Kinds pressures her daughter to be the best at something, anything. When June gives up on the piano she doesn't speak of it agian until she gives it to June as a gift for her 30th birthday.
In Best Quality accepts her daughter for everything she is and rewards her with a jade necklace, showing her love and pride. |
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Mother, St. Clair family
In The Moon Lady is told that girls should never express their desires, only listen to those of others. Is lost on a family outing in the festival of the moon lady. When told to make a wish, she wished to be found.
In Ther Voice from the Wall builds a invisible wall between her and her daughter. Becomes pregnant and has a miscarriage, though she knew this even before the child was concieved.
In Waiting Between the Trees reveals that she fell for a man at a very young age and he impregnated her with a son. Soon after he began to see other women, and in her grief and pain over this she aborted her baby. Afterwards she went to work as a shop lady where she met her future husband, Clifford. Claimed that she was a Tiger lady and was golden until that first man broke her heart, when she turned black.
In Rice Husband put fear into her daughter's heart over the appearence of her future husband and later went to stay with her daughter and saw that her marriage was falling apart. |
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daughter, St. Clair family
In The Voice form the Wall feared the world around her and observed the way her mother fell apart at the loss of her child. Heard the neighbors on the other side of the wall fighting and she told herself at least she was better off than that girl, but came to find out she was actually rather worse off.
In Rice Husband was told by her mother that her husband would have a pock on his face for every unfinished piece of rice, fearing that her future husband was a boy she despised she went to great lengths to give that boy so many pocks it killed him. Well, that boy did die, and not really at the hands of Lena, upon hearing this she ate a whole thing of ice cream then forced herself to throw it up. As her mother comes to stay with her, far in the future she fears her mom will she the bad in her marriage. Everything between she and her husband, Harold, is even and this angers the mother when she finds that Lena is being made to pay for ice cream she does not eat, As the vase falls and breaks she finds that her marriage is falling apart. |
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