The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club: Style 1 key example

Style
Explanation and Analysis:

The Joy Luck Club is as stylistically varied as the cultural and geographic terrain it covers. Tan writes with modern, accessible prose but pays homage to Chinese storytelling techniques. Characters scatter Chinese phrases in their American words. “Lately I had been feeling hulihudu,” admits Rose Hsu, “and everything around me seemed to be heimongmong.” She explores the complexity of the Chinese language by giving space to its untranslatable parts.