Summary The story of Two Kinds starts off June, the daughter of Suyuan, explaining how her mother left China during the Chinese Communist Revolution, having lost everything, including her own children. Throughout Jing’s childhood, Suyuan has constantly been wanting her daughter to become a prodigy,...
Despite the modern idealism of encouraging individuals to realize their authentic identities, it is clear that the pressure to conform to external standards remains a significant contribution to self-conflict among youth. In Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing” and Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”, the conformity...
According to Liz Brent, the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan exposes readers to the hardships of mother-daughter relationships when high expectations seem more important than identity. Both Jing-Mei and her mother struggles with false expectations of reality and identity. Brent believes Jing-Mei’s crisis...
I was 10 when I entered the country of endless dreams and opportunities, America. I moved to a completely different country at the peak points of my adolescence. Everything around me was contradictory compared to my previous lifestyle in India, the scent, the weather, the...