Mother - Daughter Duo in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife

The study intends to focus on the relationship between mother and daughter which is at times healthier and weak as well. This affects the mind and causes different kinds of conflict between them. This paper will examine the contribution of the Chinese – American novelist, Amy Tan in her select novels, “The Joy Luck Club” and “The Kitchen God’s Wife”. It is a brief survey of Amy Tan’s novels from the entire canon of Chinese – American Literature. The nucleus of this survey is the causes and its effect on the psychological turmoil that occurs in the mother – daughter relationship. Tan’s novels generally focuses on kinship under which the recurrently occurring theme is the mother – daughter bond. This seems to be one of the closest bonds, but Tan has depicted the real love between them and the conflicts as well. Has the chaos in the relationship been solved eradicating the psychological pressure?