Two Kinds

“Two Kinds”

In the story of Amy Tan “Two Kinds”, we can see a struggle of a teenager with his mother, who always tries to do the best with his daughter. Jing-mei, who is the daughter of the story, reveals bad behaviors that probably are normal for a child of that age. In the story, some acts affect their behavior and their relationship.

The mother of the story always shares a fight with Jing-mei, trying to push her daughter in some activities that maybe his daughter didn’t like. But also Jing-mei sometimes defies her mother trying to bother her with her attitude. At the end of the story we realize that both of them look at the past, thinking that maybe they could do better. So, after all, Jing-mei was destined to be like her mother, a failure.

In the story maybe a lot of people can get identified, with the teenager who is a rebel child, and who tries to always contradict the decisions of their parents. But also we can get identified after some years, that some of those decisions that parents take for us, is because they are trying to do their best job as parents.