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conversations.value: The Joy Luck Club (novel): The Joy Luck Club consists of sixteen interlocking stories about the lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers and their four American-born daughters.\nIn 1949, the four mothers meet at the First Chinese Baptist Church in San Francisco and agree to continue to meet to play mah jong.\nThey call their mah jong group the Joy Luck Club.\nThe stories told in this novel revolve around the Joy Luck Club women and their daughters.\nStructurally, the novel is divided into four major sections, with two sections focusing on the stories of the mothers and two sections on the stories of the daughters.\nThe first section, Feathers from a Thousand Li Away, introduces the Joy Luck Club through daughter Jing-Mei Woo, whose late mother Suyuan Woo founded the Joy Luck Club, and focuses on the four mothers.\nJing-Mei relates the story of how her mother Suyuan was the wife of an officer in the Kuomintang during World War II and how she was forced to flee from her home in Kweilin and abandon her twin daughters.\nSuyuan later found out her first husband died, remarried to Canning Woo, and immigrated to the United States where Jing-Mei was born.\nSuyuan and Canning attempted to find Suyuan\'s daughters, and Canning assumed that Suyuan had given up hope.\nJing-Mei, who has been asked to take her mother\'s place in the Joy Luck Club, learns from the other mothers that her half-sisters are alive.\nThey ask that Jing-Mei go to China and meet her sisters, and tell them about Suyuan\'s death.\nThe other three mothers relate the stories of their childhood.\nAn-Mei Hsu\'s story relates how her mother left her family to become the fourth concubine of Wu Tsing, a rich merchant, while An-Mei was raised by her maternal grandmother.\nHer mother returns only to cut off a piece of her flesh to cook a soup in hopes of healing An-Mei\'s grandmother, though An-Mei\'s grandmother still dies.\nLindo Jong explains how in childhood she was forced into a loveless marriage and was pressured by her mother-in-law\'s desire for Lindo to produce grandchildren.\nThrough her own ingenuity, Lindo fabricates a convincing story to annul her marriage and immigrate to the United States.\nThe final story of the first section follows Ying-Ying st Clair, who tells the story of how she fell into a lake during the Zhongqiujie festival when she was only four.\nAfter being rescued by a group of fishermen, she realizes that she is lost.\nThis experience emotionally traumatizes her, and she is dropped at the shore, and wanders into an outdoor performance featuring the Moon Lady, said to grant wishes.\nBut when Ying-Ying approaches the Moon Lady after the play to wish to be returned to her family, she discovers the Moon Lady is played by a man.\nThe second section traces the childhoods of the Joy Luck children.\nIn the first story, Waverly Jong talks about how she started playing chess, first with her brothers and then with old men in the playground near her school.\nAt the age of nine, she becomes a national chess champion.\nShe is embarrassed when her mother, Lindo introduces her to everyone she meets, showing her off like a trophy and seeming to take the credit for her daughter\'s brilliance.\nThis leads to an angry confrontation between the two of them.\nLena relates the stories her mother told her when she was younger (her great grandfather sentenced a beggar to die in the worst possible manner).\nLena\'s family moves to North Hill from Oakland.\nHer mother, who seems restless, delivers an anencephalic child who dies at birth.\nIn Lena\'s eyes, her mother becomes a \'living ghost\'.\nThe story of their neighbors and the relationship between the mother and the daughter of the neighboring household is also mentioned.\nRose Hsu Jordan wishes to tell her mother that she plans to divorce her husband Ted.\nShe reflects on their relationship.\nShe then goes on to relate an incident in which her family (her parents and six siblings) go to the beach.\nHer youngest brother, Bing, drowns.\nShe returns along with her mother An Mei to search for Bing, but in vain.\nThe last story is that of Jing Mei Woo and the pressure that her mother puts on her to perform exceedingly well in some field (to be a child prodigy).\nShe begins to learn to play the piano but doesn\'t perform well in a concert and stops playing.\nThis disappoints her mother because she wanted her to be a great pianist and Jing-Mei shows no interest in being anything else but herself.\nAround her 30th birthday, Suyuan presents her an old piano which she used to play as a child.\nAlthough Jing-Mei admits she had forgotten how to play the piano, Suyuan encourages her to try again.\nShe admits to Jing-Mei that she still has the talent to be a great pianist, but self-doubt holds her back.\nThe third section follows the Joy Luck children as adult women, all facing various conflicts.\nIn Lena\'s story, she narrates her troubling marital problems and how she fears being inferior to her husband, but does not realize he has taken advantage of her both at home and at work, where he is also her boss and earns much more than her.\nYing-Ying is very much aware of this and encourages Lena to stop being passive and stand up to her husband or nothing will change.\nWaverly Jong worries about her mother\'s opinion of her white fiance, Rich, and recalls quitting chess after becoming angry at her mother in the marketplace (believing that her mother still has absolute power over her and will object to her forthcoming marriage to Rich).\nAfter a disastrous attempt at a dinner party to tell her mother of their wedding, Waverly confronts her mother the morning afterwards and realizes that her mother has known all along about her relationship with Rich and has accepted him.\nRose Hsu Jordan learns that her husband intends to marry someone else after divorcing her, she realizes that she needs to fight for her rights and refuses to sign the conditions set forth by her husband\'s divorce papers.\nShe hires a lawyer and wins possession of the house.\nIn Jing-Mei\'s story, Jing-Mei has an argument with Waverly at a Chinese New Year\'s dinner the year before the story begins.\nRealizing that Jing-Mei has been humiliated, Suyuan gives Jing-Mei a special jade pendant called "life\'s importance," which Jing-Mei rues that she never learned the meaning of the pendant\'s name.\nShe also confronts Suyuan with the belief that she had always been disappointed in Jing-Mei because she never lived up to her high expectations and was always a failure in her eyes.\nSuyuan eventually reveals her true meaning; that while Waverly has style, she lacks the kind and generous heart that Jing-Mei has.\nThe final section of the novel returns to the viewpoints of the mothers as adults dealing with difficult choices.\nAn-Mei reveals what happened after her grandmother died; she accompanied her mother back to where she lived as the abused fourth concubine of Wu Tsing, whose second concubine manipulates and controls the household and has taken An-Mei\'s half-brother as her son.\nAn-Mei learns how her mother was forced into accepting her position after Wu Tsing\'s second wife arranged for An-Mei\'s mother to be raped and shamed.\nWhen she came to her family for help, they cruelly turned their backs on her.\nAn-Mei finds her mother has poisoned herself two days before Chinese New Year, knowing that Wu Tsing\'s superstitious beliefs will ensure An-Mei will grow in favorable conditions.\nDuring the funeral, she takes her younger half-brother and forces Wu Tsing to honor both them and their deceased mother out of fear of him being haunted by the mother\'s ghost.\nWhen the Second Wife attempts to discredit her, An-Mei quickly makes an example of her by destroying the fake pearl necklace that she originally gave to her, which exposes her cruelty and manipulation.\nThis causes the Second Wife to realize that she has lost control of the household and brought trouble on herself that she backs down.\nFearing bad karma on the way, Wu Tsing honors both An-Mei and her brother as his children and their mother as his favorite 1st wife.\nYing-Ying st Clair reveals how her first husband, a womanizer, abandoned her and how she married an American man she did not love after relinquishing her sense of control in her life.\nShe later took back her sense of control when she finally had a talk to Lena and convinced her to leave Harold.\nLindo Jong relates how she arrived in San Francisco and met An-Mei Hsu when they both worked at a fortune-cookie factory, which eventually gave her the means to plant the idea of marriage in her boyfriend\'s head.\nThe novel\'s final episode returns to Jing-Mei and her mother\'s desire to find her lost twin daughters.\nJing-Mei and her father fly to China, where Jing-Mei meets her half-sisters and embraces her Chinese heritage.\nIn doing so, she was finally able to make peace with Suyuan.
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conversations.value: The Joy Luck Club (film): The Joy Luck Club was formed by four women in San Francisco: Lindo Jong (Tsai Chin), Ying-Ying st Clair (France Nuyen), An-Mei Hsu (Lisa Lu), and Suyuan Woo (Kieu Chinh).\nThe members have mainly played mahjong and told each other\'s stories over the years.\nThey emigrated from their native country, China, remarried, and gave birth to children in America.\nSuyuan\'s daughter June (Ming-Na Wen) replaced her when Suyuan died four months before the time the film is set.\nThe mothers have high hopes for their daughters\' success, but the daughters struggle through "anxieties, feelings of inadequacy, and failures".\nThroughout the film, the mothers and daughters bond by learning to understand each other and by overcoming their conflicts.\nThe film begins with June\'s prologue tale.\nIn the prologue, a woman (presumably Suyuan) bought a swan in China from a market vendor who was selling it as "a duck that stretched its neck [to become] a goose".\nShe kept it as her pet and brought it to the United States.\nWhen the immigration officials took it away from her, she plucked out only a swan feather instead while she struggled to grab the swan away.\nFor a long time, the woman had kept the feather, planning to someday give the feather to her daughter.\nThen the film transits to June\'s farewell surprise party in San Francisco for her upcoming reunion with her long-lost twin sisters in China.\nAmong the guests are members of The Joy Luck Club, their daughters, other relatives, and friends.\nThe following characters below narrate their journeys to the audience while they reflect upon their pasts.\nIn China, four-year-old Lindo (Ying Wu) is arranged, by her mother (Xi Meijuan) and the matchmaker (Hsu Ying Li), to be married to mrs Huang\'s son when she grows up.\nWhen Lindo turns fifteen (Irene Ng), her mother sends her to mrs Huang, so Lindo marries Huang\'s son, Tyan Hu (William Gong), a pre-pubescent boy who has no interest in her.\nDuring four years of childless and loveless marriage, she is frequently abused by her frustrated mother-in-law, who believes Lindo\'s childlessness is her own fault.\nLindo eavesdrops on the servant girl telling her lover that she is pregnant and he willfully abandons her.\nLindo realizes her chance to leave the marriage without dishonoring herself, her family and her in-laws.\nLater, Lindo purportedly ruins her clothes and then claims that she had a nightmare in which Tyan Hu\'s ancestors threatened to punish her, Tyan Hu and the matchmaker.\nThen Lindo claims that the ancestors impregnated the servant girl with Tyan Hu\'s child.\nmrs Huang does not believe Lindo until mrs Huang quickly discovers the servant\'s pregnancy through inspection.\nFinally, Lindo claims that the matchmaker intentionally and wrongly paired Lindo and Tyan Hu for more money.\nFurious, mrs Huang orders the matchmaker out of her family\'s life, allowing the servant girl to have her marriage.\nLindo is able to escape the house and moves to Shanghai.\nYears later in America, Lindo has a new husband, a son, and a daughter named Waverly (Tamlyn Tomita).\nAged between six and nine, Waverly (Mai Vu) has become a chess champion.\nAnnoyed by Lindo using Waverly to "show off" at the streets, Waverly shouts at her mother and decides to quit chess.\nWhen she tries to play it again, Waverly loses one chess round, prompting her to retire from chess.\nYears later, she has a daughter Shoshana from her Chinese ex-husband and is going to marry a Caucasian fiancé, Rich (Christopher Rich), much to Lindo\'s chagrin.\nIn order to make Lindo like Rich, Waverly brings him to a family dinner, but he fails to impress them especially by improperly using chopsticks and insulting Lindo\'s cooking by marinating the dish with a sauce, humiliating Waverly.\nWhile driving home, Waverly lets Rich know how humiliated she and her family are with him, prompting him to properly learn the Chinese table manners.\nA while later, at the hair salon, Lindo retells her moments with her own mother and declares that she likes Rich very much.\nShe then gives marital blessings to Waverly and Rich, prompting her and Waverly to reconcile with each other.\nAt June\'s farewell party, Rich almost successfully uses a chopstick (but accidentally drops a piece), impressing Lindo by trying to respect the Chinese table manners.\nIn China, Ying-Ying st Clair was happily married to Lin-Xiao (Russell Wong) with a baby boy in China until Lin-Xiao abuses her and abandons her for an opera singer.\nOvercome by her depression, Ying-Ying drowns her baby son in the bathtub, which leaves her distraught afterwards because she feels that if she had killed Lin-Xiao earlier, she would not have lost "the thing that mattered the most".\nYears after she immigrated to America, she has suffered from trauma and has been haunted by her past, worrying her new family, including her daughter Lena (Lauren Tom).\nAfter Ying-Ying finally resolved her years of trauma, Lena shows Ying-Ying around her new apartment with her husband Harold (Michael Paul Chan), who is also Lena\'s boss.\nYing-Ying learns that Lena is uncomfortable with her financial arrangements with Harold.\nThey split the costs of their life evenly with a list of things that they share, making their home life contentious.\nSeeing that Lena is unhappy with her marriage, Ying-Ying reasserts herself by knocking over a table in the bedroom and causing the vase to fall from the table and break.\nHearing the sudden noise, Lena goes to her mother and admits her unhappiness.\nYing-Ying replies that Lena should leave and not come back until Harold gives her what she wants.\nAt June\'s farewell party, Lena is shown to have a new vibrant fiancé, who has given Lena what she wants and is accepting of Ying-Ying.\nNine-year-old An-Mei Hsu (Yi Ding) has been raised with her relatives and grandmother.\nShe is reunited with her long-lost mother (Vivian Wu), who was disowned by her family for her "dalliance" with a wealthy middle-aged man Wu-Tsing shortly after her husband\'s death, and who arrives to see her dying mother (Lucille Soong).\nIn order to not lose her again, An-Mei moves out with her mother to Wu-Tsing\'s house against her relatives\' wishes for her to remain with them.\nThey claim that in allowing An-Mei live with her and Wu-Tsing, the mother will ruin her future.\nShe finds that Wu-Tsing has another three wives, making An-Mei\'s mother the Fourth Wife.\nLater, she learns that the Second Wife (Elizabeth Sung) tricked An-Mei\'s mother into being raped and impregnated by Wu-Tsing.\nWhen the relatives did not believe An-Mei\'s mother and kicked her out, she reluctantly became Wu-Tsing\'s Fourth Wife as she had nowhere else to turn.\nAfter An-Mei\'s mother gave birth to a boy, the Second Wife took him away from her and claimed him as her own.\nAfter An-Mei discovers the past, her mother ultimately commits suicide by eating "sticky rice balls" laced with opium, choosing the day of her death carefully to threaten Wu-Tsing with the vengeance of her angry ghost.\nAfraid of this curse, Wu-Tsing vows to raise An-Mei and her half-brother with great care and promises to honor their mother as an honorable first wife.\nWhen Second Wife tries to pay respects to An-Mei\'s late mother, An-Mei subtly screams at the Second Wife, destroys the Second Wife\'s faux pearl necklace (the Second Wife initially tried to win An-Mei over with a similar necklace), and loudly yells out "Mama.\n" Years later in America, An-Mei\'s daughter Rose (Rosalind Chao) has been dating her boyfriend, Ted Jordan (Andrew McCarthy) since college.\nTed is initially attracted to Rose\'s assertive, forthright nature.\nWhen he confronts his aristocratic mother (Diane Baker) for insulting Rose due to her race, Rose is impressed and agrees to marry him.\nOver the course of their marriage, however, Rose and Ted become distant from each other, mainly because Rose, desperate to prove herself to Ted\'s milieu, becomes submissive and demure at the cost of her own identity and interests.\nThey have a daughter, Jennifer, but this does not resolve their marital problems.\nTo make matters worse, Ted cheats on her with another woman and neither are actually happy in their marriage.\nA while later, An-Mei comes for a visit and relays the story of her own mother\'s fate to Rose.\nShe encourages Rose to stand up for herself and Jennifer against Ted, or nothing will change.\nTo avoid the same fate, Rose reclaims her strength and stands up to Ted by telling him to leave the house and not take their daughter away from her.\nThis compels Ted to take her seriously and not continue taking her for granted.\nAt June\'s farewell party, it is revealed the couple have reconciled.\nIn World War II, when the Japanese invaded China, Suyuan Woo escaped the invasion with her twin baby daughters.\nWhen Suyuan became ill during her quest for refuge, her cart breaks down, causing the babies to fall.\nNear death, Suyuan was unable to carry the babies herself and abandoned them along with all of her other possessions, including a photo of herself.\nSuyuan survived, but was haunted by guilt in the loss of her daughters and never knew what happened to them.\nAfter she remarried in America, Suyuan has high hopes for her new daughter June, but June constantly fails to meet her expectations out of a lack of interest.\nShe performs badly during a piano recital at age nine (Melanie Chang), and when Suyuan pushes her to continue training to be a concert pianist, June refuses, saying that she wishes herself dead like Suyuan\'s other daughters, an action that offends Suyuan.\nWhen June grows into adulthood, at a dinner party a year before Suyuan\'s passing, Waverly, June\'s long-time rival whom she is freelancing for, turns down her business ideas, and Suyuan remarks that Waverly and June are not alike and that style is something one\'s born with and cannot be taught implying Waverly has style.\nJune feels humiliated, believing her mother had betrayed her for being a failure in her eyes, and Linda shows sympathy for June.\nThe following day, June berates Suyuan for her remarks and admits she could never live up to her high expectations.\nJune laments that Suyuan has always been disappointed with June because June dropped out of college, is not married, and has an unsuccessful career.\nHowever, Suyuan gives her a jade necklace and assures June that she is the one who has the unteachable style and that while Waverly was the best in competitions, June always had the best heart which made her mother prouder than she would have been otherwise.\nLast Easter before the farewell party, June received the news from the Club that the long-lost twins were alive.\nWhen June could not understand the twins\' letter written in Chinese, Lindo purportedly mistranslated the letter to make June believe that the twins knew about Suyuan\'s death and their long-lost half-sister June.\nBack to the present, when the farewell party ends, Lindo confesses that she wrote letters to the twins and then signed Suyuan\'s name.\nJune begs Lindo to tell them the truth, but Lindo tells her that it is too late because the twin sisters are anticipating their mother, Suyuan, still believing that Suyuan is alive.\nA short while later, June\'s father (Chao-Li Chi) retells the war story of Suyuan and her long-lost twin daughters.\nThen he gives her the swan feather, which came from Suyuan\'s—the woman\'s—swan as explained earlier in the prologue, saying that the feather looks worthless but has "good intentions".\nWhen she arrives in China to meet her sisters, June tells them the truth about Suyuan and embraces them.\nIn finally accepting her Chinese heritage, June is able to make peace with her deceased mother.
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conversations.value: \nThe members have mainly played mahjong and told each other\'s stories over the years.\nThey emigrated from their native country, China, remarried, and gave birth to children in America.\nSuyuan\'s daughter June (Ming-Na Wen) replaced her when Suyuan died four months before the time the film is set.\nThe mothers have high hopes for their daughters\' success, but the daughters struggle through "anxieties, feelings of inadequacy, and failures".\nThroughout the film, the mothers and daughters bond by learning to understand each other and by overcoming their conflicts.\nThe film begins with June\'s prologue tale.\nIn the prologue, a woman (presumably Suyuan) bought a swan in China from a market vendor who was selling it as "a duck that stretched its neck [to become] a goose".\nShe kept it as her pet and brought it to the United States.\nWhen the immigration officials took it away from her, she plucked out only a swan feather instead while she struggled to grab the swan away.\nFor a long time, the woman had kept the feather, planning to someday give the feather to her daughter.\nThen the film transits to June\'s farewell surprise party in San Francisco for her upcoming reunion with her long-lost twin sisters in China.\nAmong the guests are members of The Joy Luck Club, their daughters, other relatives, and friends.\nThe following characters below narrate their journeys to the audience while they reflect upon their pasts.\nIn China, four-year-old Lindo (Ying Wu) is arranged, by her mother (Xi Meijuan) and the matchmaker (Hsu Ying Li), to be married to mrs Huang\'s son when she grows up.\nWhen Lindo turns fifteen (Irene Ng), her mother sends her to mrs Huang, so Lindo marries Huang\'s son, Tyan Hu (William Gong), a pre-pubescent boy who has no interest in her.\nDuring four years of childless and loveless marriage, she is frequently abused by her frustrated mother-in-law, who believes Lindo\'s childlessness is her own fault.\nLindo eavesdrops on the servant girl telling her lover that she is pregnant and he willfully abandons her.\nLindo realizes her chance to leave the marriage without dishonoring herself, her family and her in-laws.\nLater, Lindo purportedly ruins her clothes and then claims that she had a nightmare in which Tyan Hu\'s ancestors threatened to punish her, Tyan Hu and the matchmaker.\nThen Lindo claims that the ancestors impregnated the servant girl with Tyan Hu\'s child.\nmrs Huang does not believe Lindo until mrs Huang quickly discovers the servant\'s pregnancy through inspection.\nFinally, Lindo claims that the matchmaker intentionally and wrongly paired Lindo and Tyan Hu for more money.\nFurious, mrs Huang orders the matchmaker out of her family\'s life, allowing the servant girl to have her marriage.\nLindo is able to escape the house and moves to Shanghai.\nYears later in America, Lindo has a new husband, a son, and a daughter named Waverly (Tamlyn Tomita).\nAged between six and nine, Waverly (Mai Vu) has become a chess champion.\nAnnoyed by Lindo using Waverly to "show off" at the streets, Waverly shouts at her mother and decides to quit chess.\nWhen she tries to play it again, Waverly loses one chess round, prompting her to retire from chess.\nYears later, she has a daughter Shoshana from her Chinese ex-husband and is going to marry a Caucasian fiancé, Rich (Christopher Rich), much to Lindo\'s chagrin.\nIn order to make Lindo like Rich, Waverly brings him to a family dinner, but he fails to impress them especially by improperly using chopsticks and insulting Lindo\'s cooking by marinating the dish with a sauce, humiliating Waverly.\nWhile driving home, Waverly lets Rich know how humiliated she and her family are with him, prompting him to properly learn the Chinese table manners.\nA while later, at the hair salon, Lindo retells her moments with her own mother and declares that she likes Rich very much.\nShe then gives marital blessings to Waverly and Rich, prompting her and Waverly to reconcile with each other.\nAt June\'s farewell party, Rich almost successfully uses a chopstick (but accidentally drops a piece), impressing Lindo by trying to respect the Chinese table manners.\nIn China, Ying-Ying st Clair was happily married to Lin-Xiao (Russell Wong) with a baby boy in China until Lin-Xiao abuses her and abandons her for an opera singer.\nOvercome by her depression, Ying-Ying drowns her baby son in the bathtub, which leaves her distraught afterwards because she feels that if she had killed Lin-Xiao earlier, she would not have lost "the thing that mattered the most".\nYears after she immigrated to America, she has suffered from trauma and has been haunted by her past, worrying her new family, including her daughter Lena (Lauren Tom).\nAfter Ying-Ying finally resolved her years of trauma, Lena shows Ying-Ying around her new apartment with her husband Harold (Michael Paul Chan), who is also Lena\'s boss.\nYing-Ying learns that Lena is uncomfortable with her financial arrangements with Harold.\nThey split the costs of their life evenly with a list of things that they share, making their home life contentious.\nSeeing that Lena is unhappy with her marriage, Ying-Ying reasserts herself by knocking over a table in the bedroom and causing the vase to fall from the table and break.\nHearing the sudden noise, Lena goes to her mother and admits her unhappiness.\nYing-Ying replies that Lena should leave and not come back until Harold gives her what she wants.\nAt June\'s farewell party, Lena is shown to have a new vibrant fiancé, who has given Lena what she wants and is accepting of Ying-Ying.\nNine-year-old An-Mei Hsu (Yi Ding) has been raised with her relatives and grandmother.\nShe is reunited with her long-lost mother (Vivian Wu), who was disowned by her family for her "dalliance" with a wealthy middle-aged man Wu-Tsing shortly after her husband\'s death, and who arrives to see her dying mother (Lucille Soong).\nIn order to not lose her again, An-Mei moves out with her mother to Wu-Tsing\'s house against her relatives\' wishes for her to remain with them.\nThey claim that in allowing An-Mei live with her and Wu-Tsing, the mother will ruin her future.\nShe finds that Wu-Tsing has another three wives, making An-Mei\'s mother the Fourth Wife.\nLater, she learns that the Second Wife (Elizabeth Sung) tricked An-Mei\'s mother into being raped and impregnated by Wu-Tsing.\nWhen the relatives did not believe An-Mei\'s mother and kicked her out, she reluctantly became Wu-Tsing\'s Fourth Wife as she had nowhere else to turn.\nAfter An-Mei\'s mother gave birth to a boy, the Second Wife took him away from her and claimed him as her own.\nAfter An-Mei discovers the past, her mother ultimately commits suicide by eating "sticky rice balls" laced with opium, choosing the day of her death carefully to threaten Wu-Tsing with the vengeance of her angry ghost.\nAfraid of this curse, Wu-Tsing vows to raise An-Mei and her half-brother with great care and promises to honor their mother as an honorable first wife.\nWhen Second Wife tries to pay respects to An-Mei\'s late mother, An-Mei subtly screams at the Second Wife, destroys the Second Wife\'s faux pearl necklace (the Second Wife initially tried to win An-Mei over with a similar necklace), and loudly yells out "Mama.\n" Years later in America, An-Mei\'s daughter Rose (Rosalind Chao) has been dating her boyfriend, Ted Jordan (Andrew McCarthy) since college.\nTed is initially attracted to Rose\'s assertive, forthright nature.\nWhen he confronts his aristocratic mother (Diane Baker) for insulting Rose due to her race, Rose is impressed and agrees to marry him.\nOver the course of their marriage, however, Rose and Ted become distant from each other, mainly because Rose, desperate to prove herself to Ted\'s milieu, becomes submissive and demure at the cost of her own identity and interests.\nThey have a daughter, Jennifer, but this does not resolve their marital problems.\nTo make matters worse, Ted cheats on her with another woman and neither are actually happy in their marriage.\nA while later, An-Mei comes for a visit and relays the story of her own mother\'s fate to Rose.\nShe encourages Rose to stand up for herself and Jennifer against Ted, or nothing will change.\nTo avoid the same fate, Rose reclaims her strength and stands up to Ted by telling him to leave the house and not take their daughter away from her.\nThis compels Ted to take her seriously and not continue taking her for granted.\nAt June\'s farewell party, it is revealed the couple have reconciled.\nIn World War II, when the Japanese invaded China, Suyuan Woo escaped the invasion with her twin baby daughters.\nWhen Suyuan became ill during her quest for refuge, her cart breaks down, causing the babies to fall.\nNear death, Suyuan was unable to carry the babies herself and abandoned them along with all of her other possessions, including a photo of herself.\nSuyuan survived, but was haunted by guilt in the loss of her daughters and never knew what happened to them.\nAfter she remarried in America, Suyuan has high hopes for her new daughter June, but June constantly fails to meet her expectations out of a lack of interest.\nShe performs badly during a piano recital at age nine (Melanie Chang), and when Suyuan pushes her to continue training to be a concert pianist, June refuses, saying that she wishes herself dead like Suyuan\'s other daughters, an action that offends Suyuan.\nWhen June grows into adulthood, at a dinner party a year before Suyuan\'s passing, Waverly, June\'s long-time rival whom she is freelancing for, turns down her business ideas, and Suyuan remarks that Waverly and June are not alike and that style is something one\'s born with and cannot be taught implying Waverly has style.\nJune feels humiliated, believing her mother had betrayed her for being a failure in her eyes, and Linda shows sympathy for June.\nThe following day, June berates Suyuan for her remarks and admits she could never live up to her high expectations.\nJune laments that Suyuan has always been disappointed with June because June dropped out of college, is not married, and has an unsuccessful career.\nHowever, Suyuan gives her a jade necklace and assures June that she is the one who has the unteachable style and that while Waverly was the best in competitions, June always had the best heart which made her mother prouder than she would have been otherwise.\nLast Easter before the farewell party, June received the news from the Club that the long-lost twins were alive.\nWhen June could not understand the twins\' letter written in Chinese, Lindo purportedly mistranslated the letter to make June believe that the twins knew about Suyuan\'s death and their long-lost half-sister June.\nBack to the present, when the farewell party ends, Lindo confesses that she wrote letters to the twins and then signed Suyuan\'s name.\nJune begs Lindo to tell them the truth, but Lindo tells her that it is too late because the twin sisters are anticipating their mother, Suyuan, still believing that Suyuan is alive.\nA short while later, June\'s father (Chao-Li Chi) retells the war story of Suyuan and her long-lost twin daughters.\nThen he gives her the swan feather, which came from Suyuan\'s—the woman\'s—swan as explained earlier in the prologue, saying that the feather looks worthless but has "good intentions".\nWhen she arrives in China to meet her sisters, June tells them the truth about Suyuan and embraces them.\nIn finally accepting her Chinese heritage, June is able to make peace with her deceased mother.
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conversations.value: The Joy Luck Club
  My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club. I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty since she died two months ago. My father thinks she was killed by her own thoughts.
  The doctor said she died of a cerebral aneurysm. And her friends at the Joy Luck Club said she died just like a rabbit: quickly and with unfinished business left behind. My mother was supposed to host the next meeting of the Joy Luck Club.
  The week before she died, she called me, full of pride, full of life: "Auntie Lin cooked red bean soup for Joy Luck. I'm going to cook black sesame-seed soup."
  My mother started the San Francisco version of the Joy Luck Club in 1949, two years before I was born. This was the year my mother and father left China with one stiff leather trunk filled only with fancy silk dresses. There was no time to pack anything else, my mother had explained to my father after they boarded the boat. Still his hands swam frantically between the slippery silks, looking for his cotton shirts and wool pants.
  When they arrived in San Francisco, my father made her hide those shiny clothes. She wore the same brown-checked Chinese dress until the Refugee Welcome Society gave her two handme-down dresses, all too large in sizes for American women. The society was composed of a group of white-haired American missionary ladies from the First Chinese Baptist Church. And because of their gifts, my parents could not refuse their invitation to join the church. Nor could they ignore the old ladies' practical advice to improve their English through Bible study class on Wednesday nights and, later, through choir practice on Saturday mornings. This was how my parents met the Hsus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs. My mother could sense that the women of these families also had unspeakable tragedies they had left behind in China and hopes they couldn't begin to express in their fragile English. Or at least, my mother recognized the numbness in these women's faces. And she saw how quickly their eyes moved when she told them her idea for the Joy Luck Club.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know five more paragraphs?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: During dinner, Harold keeps the conversation going. He talks about the plans for the house: the skylights, expanding the deck, planting flower beds of tulips and crocuses, clearing the poison oak, adding another wing, building a Japanese-style tile bathroom. And then he clears the table and starts stacking the plates in the dishwasher.
  After dinner, I put clean towels on the bed in the guest room. My mother is sitting on the bed. The room has Harold's minimalist look to it: the twin bed with plain white sheets and white blanket, polished wood floors, a bleached oakwood chair, and nothing on the slanted gray walls.
  The only decoration is an odd-looking piece right next to the bed: an end table made out of a slab of unevenly cut marble and thin crisscrosses of black lacquer wood for the legs. My mother puts her handbag on the table and the cylindrical black vase on top starts to wobble. The freesias in the vase quiver.
  I leave my mother in her room and go back downstairs. Harold is opening the windows to let the night air in. He does this every evening.
  He looks at me, sighs and smiles, pulls the windows shut, and then sits down cross-legged on the floor and flips open a magazine. I'm sitting on the sofa, seething, and I don't know why. It's not that Harold has done anything wrong. Harold is just Harold.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reverse the sentences.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Harold is just Harold.. It's not that Harold has done anything wrong. I'm sitting on the sofa, seething, and I don't know why.
  He looks at me, sighs and smiles, pulls the windows shut, and then sits down cross-legged on the floor and flips open a magazine. He does this every evening. Harold is opening the windows to let the night air in.
  I leave my mother in her room and go back downstairs. The freesias in the vase quiver. My mother puts her handbag on the table and the cylindrical black vase on top starts to wobble.
  The only decoration is an odd-looking piece right next to the bed: an end table made out of a slab of unevenly cut marble and thin crisscrosses of black lacquer wood for the legs. The room has Harold's minimalist look to it: the twin bed with plain white sheets and white blanket, polished wood floors, a bleached oakwood chair, and nothing on the slanted gray walls. My mother is sitting on the bed.
  After dinner, I put clean towels on the bed in the guest room. And then he clears the table and starts stacking the plates in the dishwasher. He talks about the plans for the house: the skylights, expanding the deck, planting flower beds of tulips and crocuses, clearing the poison oak, adding another wing, building a Japanese-style tile bathroom.During dinner, Harold keeps the conversation going
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know the last four paragraphs?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: And I know it's not my mother, yet it is the same look she had when I was five and had disappeared all afternoon, for such a long time, that she was convinced I was dead. And when I miraculously appeared, sleepy-eyed, crawling from underneath my bed, she wept and laughed, biting the back of her hand to make sure it was true.
  And now I see her again, two of her, waving, and in one hand there is a photo, the Polaroid I sent them. As soon as I get beyond the gate, we run toward each other, all three of us embracing, all hesitations and expectations forgotten.
  My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughing and wiping the tears from each other's eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off and my father hands me the snapshot. My sisters and I watch quietly together, eager to see what develops.
  The gray-green surface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.