The film, The Luck and Luck Club, centers on the lives of four Chinese mothers and their Chinese-American daughters. The story is set a few months after the death of June's mother, Suyuan. The mothers and daughters have very different principles, while the mothers are still very traditional with their Chinese upbringing, while the daughters are much more “American”. The film can be viewed according to feminist literary theory, as the 8 main characters are women. The women's life stories are told through a series of flashback scenes that deal heavily with female gender roles and expectations of women. Although mothers and their daughters grew up in very different worlds, some of their experiences and circumstances are related solely due to the fact that they experienced them because they are female. The first mother/daughter pair whose experiences were shown is that of Lindo and Waverly. Lindo was born and raised in China, where women have very few rights and no say in their future. At an early age, Lindo was promised by a "matchmaker" to get married to a man when she was 15 years old. From an early age she was told that he "belonged" to her future husband, and was already his property and that she should act accordingly. At 15 she was forced to marry a man she had known a lot, whose face she had never seen and whose age she did not know. She was expected to be a submissive, obedient and respectful wife who would bear a son for the Huang family. After the wedding, her very young husband made it clear to her that "he was the husband and made the rules" (The Joy Luck Club). When, through no fault of her own, she did not have a child with him, all the blame was placed on her and she was told if she continued to… middle of paper… Divorce brings Rose out of her servile ways and revives his old and strong personality. Finally, the relationship between June and her mother Suyuan is the culmination of all mother-daughter relationships. Growing up they never saw each other the same way, they were blinded by what they assumed the other wanted from them. Every woman thought she had a role to play in making everyone happy. Mothers felt like their daughters were ashamed of them and daughters felt like they couldn't measure up to perfect Chinese daughters and were therefore a disappointment to their moms. All women were lost in what they thought was their feminine place in society. Works Cited The Joy Luck Club. Dir. By Wayne Wang. Perf. Ming-NaWen, Tamlyn Tomita, Lauren Tom, Rosalind Chao, Tsai Chin, France Nguyen, Lisa Lu, and Kieu Chinh. Pictures of Hollywood. Movies.