"And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That was our only joy. And that's how we came to call our little parties Joy Luck" (pg. 25) Suyuan said this to Jung-Mei when she was telling her stories about when she lived in China. Suyuan lived in China as a young woman. She had lived in China during the time when Japanese soldiers were conquering it. Suyuan told her dauhghter Jung-Mei stories about how terrible it was. She told her that the only way she found any happiness was in a club she started with a three other girls. They called it their Joy Luck Club, and each week they would meet at one of their houses and feast, play mahjong, and tell stories. Other people hated them for celebrating during times of depression, but they didn't care. these meetings were the only way they could just forget about the cruel realities of the world, even if it was just for a few hour.
a literary device for this chapter would be an antecdote. The story Suyuan tells Jung-Mei about how she started the Joy Luck Club and then fled China to SanFrancisco is an antecdote.
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