The Joy Luck Club One of the central themes in the writing of second-generation Asian Americans is the search for individual identity and acceptance in American society. In recent decades, many Asian Americans have entered a period of heightened awareness of their racial and cultural identity, built on the need to establish their own unique American identity. In the book The Joy Luck Club, which revolves around four Asian American mother-daughter families whose mothers emigrated from China to America and raised their daughters as Americans, we see the struggle and cultural differences by watching their marriages, sufferings and sacrifices, and their use of language in the novel. The fact that the story's fictional mothers and daughters have unhappy marriages creates a common ground they can relate to. However, in this book marriage has different meanings for each generation. In the mothers' perspective, marriage is permanent and is not always based on love. Especially with their weddings in China, which was a social necessity they secretly had to endure in order to be happy...