Reem Nasser Abdullah Al-Aulaqi2019-10-222019-10-222019-03http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/14855The aim of this thesis is to explore, analyze and evaluate the condition of women migrants in three significant novels The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. This dissertation consists of six chapters; the first and second chapters include the introduction, the theoretical framework and the literature review. The third chapter traces the lives of four Chinese women in The Joy luck Club (Suyuan Woo, An- mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying) who had escaped the injustice and cruel actions practiced against women in China during the 1940s and had therefore migrated to America in search for their rights and a better life for them and their children. The forth chapter evaluates the genuine character of Ashima in The Namesake, the young Indian lady, who had accompanied her husband in his scholarship to America but who could never adapt to the life in America. Her nostalgia for her country and her love to her roots and backgrounds had prevented her from coping with the life in America and thus had decided to go back to India after decades of life in America. To Ashima, migration is a sort of an everlasting wait, a persistent burden, an endless feeling out of sorts. After that comes the fifth chapter which explores the striking strength of the character of Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath who is a great example of a strong determined woman who was able to keep the unity of her family during the hard times of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression in America when the whole country seemed to be in flight towards California; the land of plenty. Then is the conclusion which is the sixth and last chapter. This dissertation aims mainly to concentrate on the main female characters on those works and the challenges they face during their life journeys in general and during migration years in particular. To do so, the researcher investigates the lives of the main female characters in the three novels before migration, the hardships, backgrounds, struggles and the reasons behind those women’s decision of migration. In relation to that, the researcher studies those women’s lives before and after migration and considers the obstacles they face in the migration land and whether migration had fulfilled those women’s dreams, hopes and expectations. Moreover, the researcher explores the impact of migration on those women’s personalities and behaviours as well as that on their children. Furthermore the researcher studies whether migration had helped those female migrants to reconcile with their lives before migration or whether their inability of reconciliation with that past was the burden that prevented them from living peacefully after migration.enEnglish LiteratureThesis