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A 5 page essay that contrasts and compares Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie and Amy Tan's short story Two Kinds. These works have as their central focus the relationship between a mother and daughter. While there are naturally numerous differences between their stories, many of which derive from the fact that the families involved have different ethnic backgrounds, these relationships also have many similarities that are due to the fact that – at their core –all mother/daughter relationships have to cope with the same issues of separation and autonomy. No additional sources cited.
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of which derive from the fact that the families involved have different ethnic backgrounds, these relationships also have many similarities that are due to the fact that at their core
all mother/daughter relationships have to cope with the same issues of separation and autonomy. Tans story Two Kinds (which is taken from her novel The Joy Luck Club) concerns Jing-mei
and her mother, a first generation Chinese-American immigrant. Jing-meis mother faced a great deal of hardship while she was still in China she lost her first husband, had to abandon
two babies, and, basically, lost everything she had. Rather then dwell on her past, Jing-meis mother puts her hopes for the future on her daughter. Tan implies that this
woman is literally overcome by the freedom that is offered by her new homeland "My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America" (242). While
Jing-mei, when she was very young, enjoyed her mothers fantasy that she could be a "prodigy" child, as she grows older, she begins to assert her own individuality. Jing-meis
mother makes her living by cleaning other peoples houses. She obviously feels that she could have been much more if she could have had the freedom and opportunities offered by
America. In other words, this immigrant mother means well. She simply wants her daughter to make the most of her opportunities. However, what she conveys to Jing-mei is that the
child needs to change, needs to achieve, in order to earn her parents love. Jing-mei is constantly sent the non-verbal message that she isnt "good enough." Her mother makes
Jing-mei go through a multiplicity of "tests" that are suppose to reveal hidden talent, but end up only making the child feel bad about herself. She states, "And after seeing
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