Conflicts between mother and daughter in Two Kinds

Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a short story that was written in 1989, that outlines the difficulties with a mother and daughter relationship. A young girl name Jing-Mei Woo who is the main character in the story was a vulnerable nine-year-old girl living in a home with her mother and father. Jing-Mei deals with the high potentials of her mother, to become a genius. After losing everything in China, her mother moved to America for a better living. Jing-Mei shares her mother’s thoughts about America on…

her mother being disappointed with her poor performance at her piano recital (Tan, 391). There is a moment where she has a shouting match between her and her mother when she cries out “Why don’t you like me the way I am? (…)” and it is implied that she doesn’t feel that her mother likes her (Tan, 389). It very well could be that she has a very deep fear in her subconscious that her mother will not like her unless she is a child prodigy. Eventually, she rebels and starts to disobey her mother and…

cultural identity (Romagnolo). Her works like The Bonesetter’s Daughter and The Joy Luck Club assess controversial deliberations. Tan expresses her argument through her characters based on real life situations. Amy Tan evaluates controversial topics such as familial bonds, culture…

gruesome side of the picture. All-in-all, the focus of literary artwork ranges from many fields of societies and cultures in the world as shown in Two Kinds by Amy Tan in the shape of Jing-Mei (the modern-cum-fashionable representation of American society) and her opposite Jing-Mei's mother (The narrow-minded rigidity of ancient beliefs). Cultural conflicts include spiritual perceptions, cultural creeds, and faiths, sense of fashion and modernity, music, politics, architectural attributes, etc.…

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more will be bound to have a varied outlook on what’s going on around them. In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, the mother’s life experiences differ from those of the daughter, causing great conflict between the two. Another example comes from “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee. In this story, two alike sisters venture off into their own lives, creating major differences between them after a period…

The Joy Luck Club (Two Kinds) Essay The Joy Luck Club centers on the theme of hope. This is articulated through interactions between mother and daughter, a mother’s hope for a better life for her daughter, and a daughter’s hopes to meet her mother’s expectations. Having dealt with hardships and struggles in the mother’s own life, she becomes so focused on giving her daughter a better life at all cost, but does not see the consequences of her actions. She is blinded 
by the possibilities and…

see the difference between his Indian culture and the culture of the American education system. Robert explains that, “Wind-Wolf knows the names and migration patterns of more than 40 birds. He knows there are 13 tail feathers on a perfectly…

separate stories about mothers and daughter are told. One of the pairs is Jing-Mei and her mom, Suyuan, whom had a complicated relationship. Jing-Mei and her mom often did not see eye to eye and that caused some conflict between them. Likewise, often my mom and me have our disagreements. Our quarrels are frequent and can last from minutes to weeks. Jing Mei and Suyuan are contracting to my mom and me due to the high expectations set by by the mothers, the differences in culture between the…

One of the biggest examples of difference in views is in a relationship between a parent and a child. In the realistic fictional excerpt of Confetti Girl by Diana López, a young girl is introduces the different aspects of her family, starting off with the fun chores that she does with her mom. As the story develops, her dad’s different point of view and insistence of literature starts clashing with her views, showing how two contrasting mindsets could lead to the breakdown of a certain…