The Joy Luck Club Essay

LaTia Turner

December 14, 2014

3^rd Period

The Joy Luck Club Essay

Jing-Mei Woo does succeed to fulfill her mother’s legacy. She succeeded because her wanted her to meet her twin sisters and tell them about her before she died, and that’s exactly what she did.

One way Jing-Mei Woo succeeded her mother’s legacy was by agreeing to write back to her sisters. For example, Jing-Mei Woo said, “‘they’ll think she’s coming then,’ I murmured And I had imagined my sisters now being ten or eleven, jumping up and down, holding hands, their pigtails bouncing, excited that their mother-their mother- was coming, whereas my mother was dead”(Tan 270). This is important because it show how much she cares about what her sisters think, she wants them to know the truth, she cares about them and believes that they should know what happened to their mother.

Another way Jing-Mei Woo succeeded her mother’s legacy is by making the decision not to tell her sisters about her mother’s death. For example, Woo’s mother’s best friend, Auntie Lindo, disagreed with Jing-Mei Woo by saying,” ‘She is their mother. She is your mother. You must be the one to tell them. All these years, they have been dreaming of her.’ And I thought she was right”(Tan 270­).This is important because she agreed with Auntie Lindo that she should be the one to tell them because they’re her sisters and they’re supposed to be close.

The final way that she succeeded her mother’s legacy is by going back to China to meet her sisters. For example, when Woo finally arrived and saw them, they embraced, and she stated in thought,” Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish” (Tan 288). This is important because she finally realized what her mother wanted, she wanted all her daughters to come together again, and this is moment when Jing-Mei Woo finally realizes what her mother’s cherished wish was.

Jing-Mei Woo succeeded to fulfill her mother’s legacy. Her mother wanted her to meet her twin sisters, that was her cherished wish. She agreed to write back to her sisters, meet them in China, and tell them about their mother. All throughout meeting her sisters she always thought about how they would feel, which showed that she cared for them even though she didn’t even know them yet, and that’s  what her mother truly wanted.