Amy Tan does a great job creating a cultural conflict between Jing-mei and her mom. Being from a different culture and living in a place where standards of society and cultural behaviors are different than what Jing-mei?s mom is used to, she wants to raise her daughter the way she would if they lived in China. Being born and raised in America by Chinese parents, changes the way Jing-mei thought of herself and her heritage while growing up. Her mother believed ?you could be anything you wanted in America? America was where all my mother?s hopes lay.? (Tan). This shows that the mother believed in what a lot of people know as the ?American Dream,? implying that in America anything is possible. However, for Jing-mei, this concept was not something
