The settings and time period is really important to the characters' lives in Amy Tan's "Two Kinds." The setting, San Francisco, has an extensive Chinese community, which causes Jing-Mei's mom to put considerably more weight and expectations on Jing-Mei to excel and to be a “Prodigy” with the goal that her mom can show over her before her family. Also, the time period proceeds with a portion of the belief of the 1950s America, which Americans, particularly foreigners, trusted that they could accomplish anything in the” Land of Opportunity”. Jing-Mei's mom wants that American dream and needs Jing-Mei to be and do everything that she was not ready to do in her country China. In this way, as the story goes on and remembering the setting, Amy Tan
