The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
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The Joy Luck Club: Frame Story 1 key example

Key Examples in The Joy Luck Club

Part 4, Chapter 1: Magpies
Explanation and Analysis—Turtles and Magpies:

The Joy Luck Club features as many frame stories as flashbacks. Its characters exchange stories with one another, as when An-Mei and her mother sit together in her uncle’s courtyard in Part 4, Chapter 1. Watching the turtle in the pond, An-Mei’s mother shares a tale:

‘I also knew that turtle when I was a small child,’ said my mother. ‘I used to sit by the pond and watch him swimming to the surface, biting the air with his little beak. He is a very old turtle.’

I could see that turtle in my mind and I knew my mother was seeing the same one.