Jing-Mei Woo
The Joy Luck Club is about a group of women who share their personal stories with one another. The narrators in this story are four Chinese women and their four daughters. The story begins with a woman named Jing-Mei 'June' Woo. She is telling us about how her mother, Suyuan, has just passed away and she is being asked to replace her mother at the mah jong table. As June sits at the table, she remembers her mother's story of how the club started. Her mother always said, "What fine food we treated ourselves to with our meager allowances! We didn't notice that the dumplings were stuffed mostly with string squash and that the oranges were spitted with wormy holes," (23). Through out the evening the other women tell June their favorite stories of her mother. June soon learns that she has two half sisters in China. Her mother had just located their address a few weeks before she died. The Joy Luck Club members give June money because they want her to go visit her sisters and tell them about their mother.
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