Abstract The Joy Luck Club, published in 1989, marks a distinct growth of Asian American literature in the world. It explores the mother-daughter relationship in each particular case between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American born daughters. In this novel, people may initially feel empathic with women, who endure husband’s betrayal, sustaining survival in wartime more difficultly than men do, easily entrapped into dilemmatic situations which result in social misjudgments on their virtues, and treated as “bearing-machine” without respecting their value. Nevertheless, under the Buddhist view, those unconsciously curtain the roots of miserableness for all the figures. This paperappreciates honoring women’s perseverance in all times but lagging behind her selfishness and stubbornness perceived in loving others. This paper intends to explore thehuman characteristics as reflected in mother-daughter and husband-wife relationship in The Joy Luck Cluband attempts to clarify the reasons of the characters’ misery.