For immigrants who have come to America, the line between the desire to assimilate into
American culture and wanting to preserve their own beliefs and values of their culture is a hard one to draw. In the short stories, Who’s Irish by Gish Jen, Two Kinds by Amy Tan, and Children of Loneliness, the characters all struggle to accept this new culture and keep their own. The
American dream is a predominant idea that immigrants aspire to achieve. All who immigrate to
America desire to achieve this dream, however not all are successful. In these stories, the
American dream can be seen in the new wave of immigrants aspiring to prosper and thrive with their new culture, persevere in achieving their dream, and profit from this, however this caused
tension, …show more content…
In the story, the daughter could not overcome her hatred of her parents refusal to assimilate to American culture and ended up moving out and not seeing her parents. The daughter resents her parents from afar and it causes her to be unhappy. Amy Tan’s Two Kinds, tells the story about a mother trying to inflict her idea of the American dream and being successful on her daughter and the daughter and mother clash over this idea and tensions rise. The mother “believed you can be anything you want in America” and pushes her daughter to be perfect at something, whatever that was. The story ends in the mother and daughter fighting and only making up years later. The daughter secretly resented everything her mother was trying to force her to do and both mother and daughter were unhappy and she “wish I was not your daughter and you were not my mother”. The idea of the American dream influenced immigrants and was the central conflict in all stories which all ended in tense, resentful feelings between parent and child.
When two cultures collide, it causes turmoil and chaos within the family and
American culture and wanting to preserve their own beliefs and values of their culture is a hard one to draw. In the short stories, Who’s Irish by Gish Jen, Two Kinds by Amy Tan, and Children of Loneliness, the characters all struggle to accept this new culture and keep their own. The
American dream is a predominant idea that immigrants aspire to achieve. All who immigrate to
America desire to achieve this dream, however not all are successful. In these stories, the
American dream can be seen in the new wave of immigrants aspiring to prosper and thrive with their new culture, persevere in achieving their dream, and profit from this, however this caused
tension, …show more content…
In the story, the daughter could not overcome her hatred of her parents refusal to assimilate to American culture and ended up moving out and not seeing her parents. The daughter resents her parents from afar and it causes her to be unhappy. Amy Tan’s Two Kinds, tells the story about a mother trying to inflict her idea of the American dream and being successful on her daughter and the daughter and mother clash over this idea and tensions rise. The mother “believed you can be anything you want in America” and pushes her daughter to be perfect at something, whatever that was. The story ends in the mother and daughter fighting and only making up years later. The daughter secretly resented everything her mother was trying to force her to do and both mother and daughter were unhappy and she “wish I was not your daughter and you were not my mother”. The idea of the American dream influenced immigrants and was the central conflict in all stories which all ended in tense, resentful feelings between parent and child.
When two cultures collide, it causes turmoil and chaos within the family and