Comparing Mother And Daughter In Two Kinds

The two main characters in the short story, "Two Kinds". Are the mother and the daughter. After facing the unimaginable in China, the mother moves to American to start over and gives birth to her daughter, the protagonist of the story. thought-out, the daughter's life, she encounters several things that she necessary didn't want to do. Learning the piano, dealing with high expectations later in life, and then realizing the gift that her mother gave her after the mother had passed away. The main character was to become a prodigy, her mother had it planned out to a T. First the daughter was to try different types of performances that she could take part in. A princess actor, a dancer, or a ballerina. But her …show more content…
I didn't get straight As. I didn't become class president. I didn't get into Stanford. I dropped out of college." Because of these circumstances, the daughter no longer believed in herself. ", I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be, I could only be me." The above statement tells us that the author couldn't be herself for a long while. This really hurt the daughter and lead to a growing tension between them." Neither of us talked about it again, as if it were a betrayal that was now unspeakable." This means that the two main characters left the topic untouched for a time. After the Chinese daughter had moved out, she later received the piano that caused so much pressure and expectation on her part. The author let the piano set in her house for years before she finally touched it again. WE know this because the short story states, "The lid to the piano was closed shutting out the dust, my misery, and her( the mother's) dreams." When the piano lid closed, the daughter was allowed to be her own