There was much talk of Tan's ability to create such vivid and easily understood characters, and rightly so. ... The same is true for the characters in the novel. ... This holds true until the very last of these parables, which is a coming together of sorts for the characters (Huntley 44). ... Her character is representative not only of the daughters" point of view, but the mothers" as well (Huntley 44). ... This space has created a hole of sorts in the tradition of the Joy Luck Aunties; they already feel their old world ways slipping away from them, especially when they realize how fr...

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