Relationships in The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is a depiction of the persistent tensions and powerful bonds between mother and daughter in a Chinese-American society and is written by Amy Tan. The book illustrates the difficulties that the mother and daughters go through to please each other. Furthermore, it shows the problems that daughters face when growing up in two cultures. This book reveals that most of the time mothers really know best. Throughout Jing-Mei Woo's stories, June has to recall all the memories of what her mother told her. He remembers how his mother left her children during the war. June's mother felt that since she had failed as a mother with her first children, she had also failed as a person. When she forced June to take piano lessons, June thought she was trying to make her become a child prodigy like Waverly, but her mother did it because she knew it would benefit June for the rest of her life. Due to her mother's death, June was forced to take her mother's place by not only taking her place at Maj Jong's table. The mother-daughter tradition was broken because the lost children were found after the mother's death. June's trip to China can be seen as the fulfillment of her mother's promise to return, honoring her sisters by attempting to pass on what she had absorbed from her mother and her tradition. And I think my mother is right. I am becoming Chinese (Tan 306). This is what June thinks as she enters China. Like the Taoist Yin/Yang symbol, June and her mother have become two of the same. The only difference was their thoughts, June with the American, her mother with the Chinese. This kept the mother-daughter tradition alive but also weakened it. This happens often, but there is always something that remains and is passed down from generation to generation. Heredity is the transmission from one generation to the next of the factors that determine the traits of offspring. Although plant and animal breeding was successfully practiced by humans long before modern civilizations were established, there is no evidence that these early peoples understood the nature of hereditary factors or how they are transmitted through reproduction. June and An-mei's story is a great example of inheritance. Although many girls' worst fears of becoming like their mother, in many ways it cannot be avoided. June felt slightly hesitant about becoming more like her mother but, in the words of June's mother, An-mei, "she can't be helped" (Tan 306). June's hesitation can be seen in a quote referring to her mother's declaration of certain heredity: "And when she said this, I saw myself transforming like a werewolf, a mutant DNA tag suddenly activated, replicating itself in a syndrome, a cluster of telltale symptoms." Chinese behaviors, all those things my mother did to embarrass me....." (Tan 307). Whether these traits manifested due to lifelong exposure to her mother, or were simply genetic, DNA codes based to which June's life and habits would be determined, one thing, in this case, is certain: daughters and mothers are similar. It can be seen in everyday life and Amy Tan describes and shows this fact beautifully in her portrait stories involving June and her mother..