In her first story, daughter talks about how Suyuan, the mother told her first stories about living in Kweilin and how great it was. There was the Joy Luck Club that was started by her. Suyuan talked about how she was happy playing mahjong and winning. Then, the story was then spoken as the truth and Suyuan told her how bad it was living there and how they have moved to America to escape death.
I think that the mother changed the story every time because the daughter is beginning to grow up. The mother wants to explain the suffering that she had to go through when she was in her home country. Ther daughter is growing up and the mother could think that she could take it. I think the purpose is because when the daughter was young, it should have been more on fairytales that reality. This is because the truth sometimes scars the children for life since they have not yet felt such a pain in their life yet. It allows time for the child to develop until he or she could finally understand the full meaning of the story.
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