两类人

The mother and daughter have completely opposite understandings of identity and individuality, making their conflicts inevitable.
1. For the mother identity is quite obvious, identity is something put on or invented: 1) even in California she identifies herself as a Chinese wife and mother. She also strives to maintain Chinese traditions and beliefs in the new environment.
1. The narrator’s mother in “Two Kinds,” for example, insists that “you could be anything you wanted to be in America.” 2. She ticks off the possibilities to her daughter: “You could open a restaurant. You could work for the government and get good retirement. You could buy a house with almost no money down. You could become rich. You could become instantly famous.”
Two kinds
Amy Tan
The introduction of the writer The introduction of the short story The themes of the short story The conclusion
Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952, in Oakland, California.Her parents immigrated to United States to escape from the Chinese civil war in 1949.Her father was an electronic engineer and a Baptist minister, and her mother, a vocational nurse. When she was merely fourteen, her father and her eldest brother died of brain tumors. Her family moved to Switzerland,
Themes American Dream Identity
Anthropologists and other scholars who study the immigrant experience in America have long noted that the American dream exerts a powerful influence on new arrivals in the country.
The “two kinds” is excerpted from Amy Tan’s first novel The Joy Luck Club , In the novel she mainly describes the relationship between the joy luck club mothers and their daughters and cultural conflicts. The novel is set in the age of globalization and in the multicultural American society; it represents the process of misunderstanding, conflicts, understanding and blending between the mothers and the daughters.
Realizing that they may not achieve the American dream of material success and social acceptance, they tend to transfer those ambitions and dreams to their children, the burden usually falls more heavily upon the shoulders of the American born generation.
2. For the daughter, identity is something essential and individual. 1) It’s not so simple for her daughter, however, who has to move across cultural boundaries and obstacles that her mother cannot begin to appreciate.
2)As the narrator says later in the story, “Unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only beparents are willing to sacrifice careers, families, and properties, to pursue new lives in America.
2) most of her contact with American culture is through the popular media like magazines and television, she can be a passive and uncritical receptor of new ideas.
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and she managed to graduate from high school as a foreigner, striving to live with her mother through arguments and family turmoil. study experiences: She changed her study subject to linguistics and graduated as a double major: BA of linguistics and English. San Jose State University granted her a master degree in linguistics in 1973, and after that, she was admitted as a doctoral student in linguistics with fellowship in University of California at Berkeley