"Two Kinds" Mother-Daughter Conflict

In the conflict between Jing-mei and her mother, Jing-mei says thing to her mother that her breaks her mother’s heart. For example, she tells her mother that she hates her. This shows that her feeling got to the point where she just broke. This also shows that she really didn’t want to play the piano or become a prodigy. In addition, she also told her mother that she wishes she was dead like the other babies in China that the mother had lost. This shows that Jing-mei felt her life was unfair and not hers, but she wanted her life to be her owns. This also shows that the daughter has not learned to think before she speaks and she also doesn’t know the strength of her words yet. Jing-mei’s actions were unfair and completely mean, she shouldn’t have said the things she did. The words truly hurt the mother deeply, so the mother just gave up on and was heartbroken.