In Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club, how does each mother-daughter pair reconcile?

Amy Tan’s complexly structured novel The Joy
Luck Club presents four pairs consisting of a mother and a daughter.  Each of
the daughters is somewhat estranged, for different reasons, from each of the mothers. 
By the end of the novel, reconciliation of some sort and to some degree has occurred
within each mother-daughter pairing.  These reconciliations might be described as
follows:

• An-Mei Hsu’s daughter Rose learns from
  hearing about her mother’s youthful experiences in China that she can survive without
  her own disappointing husband, Ted.


• Ying-Ying St. Clair’s
  daughter Lena realizes the significance of Ying-Ying’s life to Lena’s own disappointing
  marriage to her husband Harold.


• Waverly Jong ultimately
  learns to appreciate the complicated affection of her sometimes overbearing mother,
  Lindo Jong.


• Jing-Mei Woo learns to appreciate the
  complexity of her recently deceased mother’s youthful life in China and the depth of her
  mother’s suffering and compassion.

In all four
cases, then, there are reconciliations, or at least there is greater understanding,
involving the daughters coming to see the relevance of their mothers’ experiences (and
experience) to the daughters’ own lives. Thus the reconciliations involve not simply
eight individual persons but also two different generations and also, to a great degree,
at least two different cultures.

The final sentence of the
novel emphasizes multiple kinds of reconciliation. When Jing-Mei finally is able to meet
her long-lost sisters at an airport in China (sisters whose existence she has only
recently discovered), she sees (in a picture of all three of them taken by someone else)
reflections of their recently deceased mother:

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Together we look like our mother: her same eyes,
her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished
wish.

This sentence implies a
union among the three sisters, a union of the sisters with their mother, a union between
the past and the present, a union between America and China, and a union of the living
with the dead.