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Quote: "And she wrote on the back of each names of the babies and this same message: "Please care for these babies with the money and valuables provided. When it is safe to come, if you bring them to Shanghai, 9 Weichang Lu, the Li family will be glad to give you a generous reward. Li Suyuan and Wang Fuchi."

Commentary: Li Suyuan sacrificed her twin babies. She made a hard decision to leave her babies in a secure area to be rescued during the Japanese invasion in Kweilin. She left without looking back but walking with hope that somebody will rescue her babies. Even though she remarries in America, she never stops searching for her twins.

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Quote: "My mother took her flesh and put it in the soup. She cooked magic in the anicent tradition to try to cure her mother this one last time. She opened Popo's mouth, already too tight from trying to keep her spirit in. She fed her this soup, but that night Popo flew away with her illness. Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.”

Commentary: An-mei's mother sacrificed her own flesh. She returns to her dying mother, known as Popo. An-mei's mother cuts a little of herself and adds in to the magical soup to cure her mother, shrugging off the pain. Even though Popo disowned An-mei's mother, she was willing to sacrifice her own flesh for her mother.

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Quote: “And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me—because I had never seen that face before. I looked at my reflection, blinking so I could see more clearly. The girl staring back at me was and angry, powerful. This girl and I were the same. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts. I won’t let her change me, I promised myself. I won’t be what I’m not.

Commentary: Suyuan works long and extra hours cleaning the piano teacher's house so her daughter June can receive piano lessons for free because her mother doesn't have cash to afford them. June doesn't want to learn how to play so she refuses to practice. Her mother sacrificed her time and effort for her daughter. As a child, June didn't know what her mother was doing but, as an adult, she realizes her mother's attempt to foster her natural talent.

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Quote: "Auntie, Uncle," I say repeatedly, nodding to each person there. I have always called these old family friends Auntie and Uncle. And then I walk over and stand next to my father."

Commentary: June calls all the member of the Joy Luck Club "Auntie"or "Uncle" because they are more than just friends. They are family. The members have been around since she was a kid and whenever her mother first stated the Joy Luck Club.

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Quote: "And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed-Americans born-mind "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.

Commentary: The mothers of the Joy Luck Club sacrificed their life and a little piece of themselves to pass down to their daughters. They are afraid that their stories, luck, hopes, and Chinese cultural is not passed to other generations. That's the only reason why they immigrated to America to share their stories, hopes, luck, and Chinese cultural to their grandchildren. Also, to relive a new life style.

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Quote: "I watched this same movie when you did not come. The American solider promises to come back and marry the girl. She is crying with geniue feeling and he says, "Promise! Promise! Honey-sweetheart, my promise is good as gold." Then he pushes her onto the bed. But he doesn't come back. His gold is like yours, only fourteen carats."

Commentary: In China, fourteen carats doesn't mean anything. Twenty four carats is considered real gold in China. To Chinese people, Americans  are not committed enough to their spouses.

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Quote: "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."

Commentary: June's mother immigrated to America to begin a new life style. Her mother started this club to gather the four women together and celebrate the happiness and luck of their new life in America and lay go of their sufferings.

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Quote: "America was where all my mother's hopes lay. She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her family home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girls. But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better."

Commentary: Suyuan leaves her life in China to start a new and better life in America. She remarries to an American man, learns English, has and raises a daughter with her husband. She believes coming to America, you can become anyone or anything you want to be if you put your mind to it and try your hardest.

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Quote: "She become so thin now you  cannot see her," says my mother. "She like a ghost, disappear."

Commentary: Lena's mother notices that her daughter's marriage is heading for disaster. Also, she see herself in her daughter. She doesn't want her daughter to lose her identity becoming a "ghost" like she did whenever she came to America and became a whole different person. Lena doesn't do anything to fix the problem in her marriage.

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Quote: "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."

Commentary: June and her mother, Suyuan, never seen eye to eye. Her mother pushed her to be someone she wasn't and didn't want to be. June realizes that she can live her mother's expectations and wants to learn more about her Chinese part. The only good quality she possess.

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Quote: "My  mother smiled and walked over to me. She smoothed some of my wayward hairs back in place and tucked them into my coiled braid. "A boy can run and chase dragonflies, because that is his nature," she said. "But a girl should stand still. If you are still for a very long time, s dragonfly will no longer see you. Then it will come to you and hide in the comfort of your shadow."

Commentary: An-mei and Rose both lack wood because they are sensitive to other's opinions. An-mei desires her daughter, Rose, to not be actually like her in life. She wants Rose to not let people talk down of her and for her to speak up, to stand up for herself. An-mei wants Rose to know that her life is worth living and fighting for.

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Quote: "My mother named me after the street that we lived on: Waverly Place Jong, my official name for important documents. But my family called me Meimei, "Little Sister."

Commentary: Her mother loved the name Waverly so she named her daughter after the street they lived on. Her mother felt like Waverly was a perfect name because she thought that her daughter fit in and is apart of America. Later on in life, her mother notices that her daughter lacks her Chinese  character and has too much of American character.

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Quote: "I see it right away: the marble end table collapsed on top of its spindly black legs. Off to the side is the black vase, the smooth cylinder broken in half, the freesias strewn in a puddle of water...... "Fallen down," she says simply. "It doesn't matter," I say and I start to pick up the broken glass shards. "I knew it would happen." "Then why you don't stop it?" asked my mother.

Commentary: The marble end table and black vase represents Lena's marriage with Harold. The marble end table is wobbly and shaky. The black vase is bond to break because it's so flimsy. Unfortunately, the the black vase shatters into pieces and the marble end table collapses on the floor. Lena knew it would happen and her mother questions her daughter why she is doing nothing to prevent this down fall in her marriage.

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Quote: "How do you know I'll fall?" whined the girl. "It is in a book, The Twenty Six Malignant Gates, all the bad things that can happen to you outside the protection of this house." "I don't believe you. Let me see the book."

Commentary: The book symbolizes a mother's devotion to protecting her child from any danger that comes its way. In the Joy Luck Club face difficulties with their daughters. They want to shield and protect them from the outside world but trust and communicating interferes between the mothers and daughters. In China, it's always best to trust your mother because mommy knows best. But, mothers can't always be there to protect their children from dangers.

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Quote: "I wiped my eyes and looked in the mirror. I was surprised at what I saw. I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind."

Commentary: Lindo found her strength. She was the wind. She took matters into her own hands and used her strength to blow out her marriage candles. By blowing out the marriage candles, she wouldn't be linked to her husband and choosing her own fate. Though she was still married to him, she waited around to see what fate had in store for her in the future.

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Quote: "In America I will have a daughter just like me. But over there nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husband's belch. Over there nobody will look down on her, because I will make her speak perfect American English."

Commentary: Once in America, the mothers of the Joy Luck Club discovered that their daughters are criticized by their husband. The mothers realized that their daughters had a problematic life, even though they speak "only perfect American English".