In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, four of the main characters have a secret in their past that haunt them constantly. Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair all have terribly bad experiences in China. These women try to escape their past by moving to America, but their memories still disturb them .Not only does it plague their own minds, but it also affected their daughters’ lives and …showed first 75 words of 936 total…

…showed last 75 words of 936 total…affected their own lives but the lives of their daughters as well. They were not only related by blood, but also by spirit; when a mother’s spirit was weak, her daughter’s spirit was weak as well. The bond between the mothers and daughters in the novel was much stronger than blood, it was by soul. The connection of the spirits will be passed down for many generations to come, just like their culture.