In Michelle Gaffner Wood, “Negotiating the Geography of Mother-Daughter Relationships “ article The criticism about Tan's works centers on the way that the dialogic nature of talk-story functions either to create or to bridge gaps between bi-cultural, bilingual immigrant mothers and their Americanized second-generation daughters. As seen in Amy Tans, Two kinds the narrative point of view foreseen in the text describes the protagonist as struggling to please and keep her mother happy, as she soon realizes how unhappy it makes her trying to live up to these standards she feels aren't destine to be. Seeking for acceptance but tired of living in that double standard Jing-Mei soon rebeled against her mother and expressed her need for a free will.
