Two Kinds By Amy Tan Character Analysis

Two Kinds by Amy Tan deals with a girl and a controlling mother.The main character in the story, a little chinese girl, is taken on a experience that could make or break her life. This girl struggles with meeting her mother's standards. Amy Tan is able to express both the mother's and the daughter's point of views. Tan incorporates a little bit of her story in this great read. This novel deals with the difficulties of trying to be perfect and straining to please those that we love. The story begins with the little girl so happy that she is able to become something that she wants to do. She tells herself that no matter what becomes of her, she will not change, "And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me - because I had never seen that face before, I looked at my reflection, blinking so I could see more
She stands up to her mother and expresses how she feels about being a prodigy. One of the biggest experiences of being expressive that Jing has is when she asks her mother why she can't accept her for who she is, "Why don't you like me the way I am? I'm not a genius! I can't play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn't go in TV if you paid me a million dollars!"(Tan 734). No matter how hard it was to stick up to her mother she was still able to say what she needed to say. Jing to her mother how she really felt about being forced to become someone she wasn't. Near the end of the story she finally communicated what she needed to be revealed, "You want me to be someone I am not...I'll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!"(Tan 737). She continues to tell her mother that she will never amount to the daughter that she wants. Jing's finally words to her mother finally made her listen. Jing said, "I wish I were dead! Like them"(Tan 737). No matter how hurtful this was to her mother, she certainly understood that pain that her child was going