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Push, push, push – The sound of success. In many ways, Confucianism can help one discover his path in life. Consider the quote by Confucius, “Look at the means a man employs, observe the path he takes and examine where he feels at home. In what way is a man's true character hidden from view?” With these Confucianism-like ideas, Amy Tan weaves them into the subtle fabric of her novel The Joy Luck Club, which unveils a beautiful interconnecting story that features many subplots about four Chinese women and their daughters. A reading of the text with attention to the way the sacred system of Confucianism interact between each mother and daughter offers a unique way to make sense of Tan’s group of loosely linked stories and ambiguous resolutions. With resolutions comes conflicts that revolves around a four corners of the Mah-Jong table that makes up The Joy Luck Club. The daughter of the founder of the Joy Luck Club, Jing-Mei, completes the fourth corner of the Club after her mother's death, only to find that the Aunts wish her to correct a greater imbalance: to meet her two sisters in China, and fulfill her filial obligation to tell her sisters about their mother. The entire novel pivots around the Aunt's tension about th