Two Kinds (story)
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Two kinds is the name of a story by Amy Tan. It is included in Tan's first book The Joy Luck Club. It is about the immigration of a Chinese mother and her child, and the subsequent conflicts between them. The daughter (narrator) Jing-mei, is feeling pushed into becoming a music prodigy, by her mom who wishes her to rise out of mediocrity. Jing-mei has no wish to co-operate. Using a child as the narrator, Tan enables a double perspective.[1] Among other things, it shows off a keen ear for fractured English [2]. Jing-mei's mother gets her motivations from American pop-culture such as: Ripley's Believe It or Not, Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, and Ed Sullivan.
