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Mothers and Daughters in the Joy and Luck Club The first three stories in this section are about the relationship between mothers and daughters and the last one concludes the entire book "The Joy of Luck Club". Looking into this section, there is a moral in these four stories, which is that the relationship between daughters and mothers is very strong and mothers and daughters have similar fates and faces. The plots of these four stories can demonstrate the above moral. In "Magpies", when An-mei hsu thinks about her daughter's marriage falling apart, she remembers her mother and how she followed her to Tianjin. An-mei also remembers the conflict between her mother, Wu Tsing, and Wu Tsing's second wife. He remembers how the second wife lied to his mother and how Wu Tsing forced his mother to become his fourth wife. Eventually, An-mei's mother died from taking too much opium. An-mei realizes that her mother's situation is the same as her daughter's, both of them can't save their lives very well and they like magpies. In "Waiting in the Trees", Ying-Ying St. Clair recalls her childhood story when she sees signs in her daughter's house. Ying-Ying remembers what her first marriage was like, how she met her first husband, and the end result of her first marriage. Ying-Ying also talks about her year of Tiger's birth and the relationship between her and Clifford St. Clair and how they both become equal. Ying-Ying realizes that the relationship between her and Clifford St. Clair is also the same as her daughter and her husband's. Ying-Ying also says that her daughter is the same as a tiger. In the end, Yin-Yin knows that her daughter will go upstairs when her daughter fights with her husband and she will wait for his arrival. In "Double Face", when Lindo Jong looks at his daughter's face, he compares American and Chinese faces. . Lindo Jong remembers what her mother predicted by looking at her face. She also remembers how she moved to America and realizes that her face has already become an American face. In "A Pair of Ticket", Jing-Mei Woo talks about her feelings before meeting her two sisters. Also, Jing-Mei talks about meeting her father and aunt at the airport. In the meeting, Jing-Mei's father talks about Jing-Mei's mother and how she ran away when the Japanese came to China and how she left her two daughters on the railway..