Amy Tan is the author of The Joy and Luck Club, a famous novel about the relationship between two generations, mother and daughter. Tan is a Chinese-American woman, whose parents are both Chinese immigrants. To meet his mother's high expectations, Tan had to face many difficulties. At the age of five she already knew the taste of pressure when her mother was dissatisfied with her just because her picture wasn't hanging in the principal's office. Growing up in America, Tan also realizes the differences between two cultures. Tan was scolded when she got a B, while the other children were fine when they got a C. Tan realizes that it would be difficult to please her mother, or even at all. Even so, Tan still committed to meeting her mother's expectations. However, Tan completely changed from an obedient daughter to a rebellious daughter due to one incident: the death of her father and brother. Because of this, Tan thought there would be no point in being good; therefore, he began to rebel against his 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 that she was almost put in prison. Eventually, as Tan grew up, she began to forgive herself for her stupid mistakes and also to forgive her mother. Tan realized that everything his mother did was out of love; he just wanted Tan to have a bright future. Amy Tan then began writing her first novel, The Joy Luck Club. This novel is a great success in both her literary career and her life. One of the factors that led her to hold her pen up 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 Museum of Living History, June 28, 1996.Web. May 5, 2014. Nancy Willard, “Tiger Spirit,” in The Women's Review of Books, vol. VI, nos. 10-11, July 1989, p. 12. Ret. in "Amy Tan (1952-)". Contemporary literary criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz, Cathy Falk and Mary K. Gillis. vol. 59. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. 89-99. Free Library of Philadelphia. Storm. Literary criticism online. May 5, 2014Shen, Gloria. “Born to a Stranger: Mother-Daughter Relationships and Storytelling in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.” Modern Critical Interpretation: Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2002. 111-23. Print.Tan, Amy. "Two guys." The Joy and Luck Club. New York: Penguin, 2006. 132-44. Press.