Amy tan’s vision of an ideal women differs from the two different time periods, in the first story involving June, she depicts an ideal women of that time period as being independent and relying on herself, but as in the case of the other stories the children had lots of respect for their parents and did exactly as their parents told them to do. In June's case she did have lots of respect for …showed first 75 words of 635 total…

…showed last 75 words of 635 total…up in a minority family, she did not want to disgrace her family name, and because of this she was told how to act and what to say her entire life. So as Amy Tan explains her story from generation to generation the three different women were not that different, because in all three stories all of the girls wanted to do one thing and that is to keep their family name clean and respectful.