“Amy Tan’s special accomplishment in this novel is not her ability to show us how mothers and daughters hurt each other, but how they love and ultimately forgive each other. If the book has a plot, it is her characters’ slow progress from confusion to understanding.” (“Tiger Spirits,” The Woman’s Review of Books, July 1989, 12.) This quote by Nancy Willard imply that in The Joy Luck Club the mothers and daughters disappoint each other …showed first 75 words of 1253 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1253 total…have to understand that no one is perfect. Thus, the mothers and daughters were able to forgive each other. As for Popo, deep down inside I think she forgave Taitai and loves her. After realizing their differences they were able to learn from each other and based on this criteria they overcame they differences and concentrated on the thing that truly matter, which is being there for each there, especially when they are most needed.