Amy Tan’s short story “Two Kinds” describes the dysfunctional relationship between a controlling mother and her daughter. The story begins when a family from China moves to America after losing everything back home in China. The narrator, Jing-mei is always in a constant struggle with her mother over her identity. Her mother makes many attempts for her daughter to become this so-called prodigy child. From beauty training school and ballet to naming capitals and predicting the daily temperatures in
In the story “Two Kinds”, the narrator Amy Tan talked about her relationship with her mother and how she viewed the older and younger generations of Chinese American families. The setting of the story helps bring an understanding of each character. Even though there are various types of setting used in this story, this piece is specifically going to talk about the cultural setting. Cultural setting is divided into two parts; physical and nonphysical setting. Physical cultural setting is the dialogue
Literary Analysis of Two Kinds by Amy Tan Two Kinds is a short story by Amy Tan in the book The Joy Luck Club. Tan writes about the intricacy of a daughter and a mother relationship who migrated from China to America. The short story is about a Chinese-American girl named Jing-mei. Jing-mei lived in American and her mother believed that, as long as one lives in America, he/she can be anything she could ever wish to be and therefore, she was working hard to find her daughter’s talent. Jing-mei’s
Compare and Contrast “Two Kinds” written by Amy Tan and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are stories and reading that show the family relationships. They are two different stories but, have quite similarities. The similarity between the two stories is to me is the reaction of their love one when at the time they are too assertive, forceful and overbearing towards people they care. In “Two Kinds” story the author demonstrates the relationship between a mother and daughter, which