Bruce Lee said, “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it”. In Amy Tan's, “Two Kinds” a young girl, Jing-mei who her mother immigrated to America from China. Jing-mei mother transferred her hope to Jing-mei to become a prodigy as her ideal hope. Jing-mei mother test Jing-mei with nightly quizzes, her mother gave Jing-mei Piano lessons on how to play the piano. During a talent show Jing-mei failed her mother hopes of becoming a prodigy. Jing mei realise she wont stop changing herself that her mother wants her to be. Tan used central conflicts of Jing-mei refusing to practice to play the piano, taking nightly quizzes, and fooling around trying to learn
