Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, a famous novel about the relationship between two generations, mother and daughter. Tan is a Chinese-American whose parents are both Chinese immigrants. In order to meet his mother's high expectations, Tan had to go through many hardships. Around the age of five, she already knew the taste of pressure when her mother was unhappy with her simply because her picture was not hanging in the principal's office. Having grown up in America, Tan is also aware of the differences between two cultures. Tan would get scolded when she got a B, while the other kids were fine when they got a C. Tan realizes that it would be difficult to appease her mother, if at all. Despite this, Tan still strived to live up to his mother's expectations. However, Tan completely changed from an obedient girl to a rebellious girl because of one incident: the death of her father and brother. For this reason, Tan thought there would be no point in being good; that's why she started rebelling against her mother. “Everything my mother hated was better,” Tan said in an interview. She began wearing makeup, wearing short skirts, smoking, drinking and dating a 26-year-old man, of whom her mother absolutely disapproved. Her eccentric and rebellious behavior got to the point where she was almost put in prison. Eventually, as Tan grew up, he began to forgive himself for his stupid mistakes and also forgave his mother. Tan realized that everything his mother did was out of love; she just wanted Tan to have a bright future. Amy Tan then began writing her first novel, The Joy Luck Club. This novel is both a major success in his literary career and in his life. One of the factors that led her to lift the pen and write this...... middle of paper ......ia: Chelsea House, 2002. 139-53. Print.Huntley, ED Amy Tan: A Critical Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. Print. “Interview: Amy Tan”. Success Academy. A living history museum, June 28, 1996.Web. May 5, 2014. Nancy Willard, “Tiger Spirit,” in The Women's Review of Books, Vol. VI, n° 10-11, July 1989, p. 12. Ans. in "Amy Tan (1952-)". Contemporary literary criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz, Cathy Falk and Mary K. Gillis. Flight. 59. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. 89-99. Free Library of Philadelphia. Gale of wind. Online literary criticism. May 5, 2014Shen, Gloria. “Born to a Stranger: Mother-Daughter Relationships and Storytelling in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.” Modern critical interpretation: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2002. 111-23. Print.Tan, Amy. “Two kinds.” The Joy Chance Club. New York: Penguin, 2006. 132-44. Print.