In Amy Tan’s short story Two Kinds, the story describes a conflict between the narrator, a Chinese American girl and her mother a Chinese immigrant. The narrator is caught between two cultures and her mother’s traditional beliefs on how to raise a daughter in the United States, which can cause their relationship to be dysfunctional. […]
‘Two Kinds” is an allegory story, toned in a melancholy characterisation to either sympathise with the mother or the daughter telling the story, the author set the background of the story from folklore to quintessential compelling story theme on motherhood, ‘Chinese immigrant who came to America ‘in 1949 after losing everything in China.” Suyuan having […]
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Get startedAmy Tan’s ‘Two Kinds” is a short story about the relationship between a Chinese-American mother and her American daughter. Two Kinds is a chapter from Tans book, ‘The Joy Luck Club”, which is made up of sixteen stories about Tan growing up in America with a mother from ancient Chinese customs (Tan, 189). In this […]
The short story ‘Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, is a story about a conflict between a Chinese woman and her Americanborn daughter. Before immigrating to the United States, the mother lost everything in China and moved in hopes of a better life. The mother viewed the United States as a land of opportunity where a […]
The novel ‘the luck club” was written by Amy Tan, an American -born Chinese writer, in 1989. Amy Tan first large literary work was a great success: the novel became a bestseller, and the same year Amy Tan won The National Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Award (Jokinen, 1996), and translated into 17 […]
