Mother and Daughter Relationship

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This paper analyzers the ways that Amy Tan, in "Rules of the Game" and Alice Walker in "Everyday Use" investigate the relationships between mothers and daughters. It looks at how these relationships that the authors find compelling in and of themselves, are also found to be illuminative of the larger conflicts between past and future, tradition and progress, the Old World and the New. It shows how both writers root their stories within a specific ethnic tradition and how both are also engaged in that retelling of the universal.

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"Amy Tan in "Rules of the Game" and Alice Walker in "Everyday Use" investigate the relationships between mothers and daughters, relationships that the authors find compelling in and of themselves and that they also find to be illuminative of the larger conflicts .."

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