Portrayal of Cultural Conflict in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife

Abstract

The present research is a study on cultural misunderstanding and confusion between first generation American daughter Pearl and her immigrant Chinese mother Winnie. As products of different cultures and histories, mother and daughter abide by different cultural values and possess different modes of interpretation. Therefore cultural conflict exists by the interaction and the revelation of secrets between Chinese immigrant mother Winnie whose ways of thinking and doings are thoroughly. Chinese in spite of her many years of American residency and her Americanized second generation daughter Pearl who has been cultivated with American ideals of freedom and democracy