When Suyuan died, Jing-mei has to all of a sudden fill her
mother’s shoes by replacing her at the Joy Luck Club and fulfilling her mother’s
greatest wish for Jing-mei to meet her daughters and tell them about their
mother’s life. Jing-mei fulfilled her mom’s legacy and honored her.
She honored her mother when she became the
fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club mah jong table and kept the tradition going.
The Joy Luck Club was started by her mother in Kweilin, China to cope with
horrors of the war; it was a time for her and her friends to be happy, eat lots
of food, tell stories, and bet over mah jong. Suyuan continued the tradition in
America.
Jing-mei
always felt like she couldn’t live up to her mother’s expectations, until one
night Suyuan gave her the jade pendant at a point where Jing-mei was filling
terrible about herself, and assured her she had the best quality heart. Suyuan
called this pendant Jing-mei’s life importance,
and as Jing-mei grew older it represented her development and
understanding of her mother’s gestures. Also as she gets older, Jing-mei learns
more about herself and her mother and the meaning of the pendent deepens, just
as the color of the jade. This shows that her mother is proud of her and sees
her for who she is.
At the Joy
Luck Club table Jing-mei got the opportunity to fulfil her mother’s
long-cherished wish to go to China to see her sisters. Jing-mei reunites with
her sisters and fulfils her mother’s legacy.
Jing-mei’s
mother’s wish has been fulfilled, and through the process, Jing-mei feels that
she has come closer to her mother and now her sisters can learn about their
mother through her.
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