Parental Control In Amy Tan's Two Kinds

In the story “Two Kinds”, Tan portrays how excessive parental control alienates a child and makes them insecure causing them to rebel against their parent’s beliefs and standards. The mother lives her dreams through her daughter. She moved to America from China because she believed that anything is possible there. She wanted to give her daughter everything she did not have as a child which is a chance to be successful and have a good life. The mother expected her daughter to be a prodigy. She would set up unrealistic goals for a normal child like her daughter, she expected her to be talented, smart and one of kind, she wanted her to be perfect. She would push her to be successful no matter how the daughter felt about it or what’s she is capable