"And now I see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood. After all these years, it can finally be let go".
-Page 288
I feel that this quote is the most significant in the whole book. It of course relates to each mother and daughter from the Joy Luck Club. The whole time the mothers were worried about their daughters losing their heritage. Lena,Waverly, Rose, and June were all living their lives differently from how they lived growing up. Ying-ying, Lindo, An-mei, and Suyuan would watch their daughters make their own mistakes and go through their own troubling times. They found it insulting that their daughters did not come to them for advice. However, even after divorces and other troubles, they would always have their Chinese mothers to come back to.
I remember my last break up when I was feeling as low as can be. When I came home my mother and sister built me back up again and turned my saddness into a new sense of hope for something better. Family doesn't always get along well and may not agree on everything, but they will always their for you through your ups and downs. Just as your heritage will always be with you, so will your family.
The ARGUMENT of they story as Lindo puts it is, "These two faces, I think, so much the same! The same happiness, the same saddness, the same good fortune, the same faults"(256).
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