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Jing-mei’s mother is one of the main characters and the antagonist in the short story “Two Kinds“ by Amy Tan. Her real name is not mentionend in the story, the reader only knows her as the mother of Jing-mei.
Jing-mei’s mother is a Chinese immigrant who came to the United States in 1949. She lost her parents, her family home and her first husband with whom she had two twin daugters in China (ll.6-8). After losing her family, she married again and became pregnant with her daughter Jing-mei. With her second husband and her daughter Jing-mei, she lives in the “Sacramento“ Street in Chinatown, a city in Carlifornia (ll.46-47)
The short story does not give any information about the appearance of Jing-mei’s mother, but the reader gets to know that Jing-mei’s mother beliefs in the American Dream. She´s conviced of it that in America anyone can become something and that you can become succesful no matter which kind of background you have (ll.1-6). That´s why she wants her daughter to become a child prodigy (l.4). She´s very determined and thinks that Jing-mei can become famous even though she does not have any special abilities in something.
One day Jing-mei’s mother and Jing-mei watch Shirley Tempel, a child actress, dancer and singer, on televison and Jing-mei’s mother decides to turn her daughter into a Chinese Shirley tempel (ll.10-14). She´s so fascinated with that idea that she signs up her daughter to beauty training school to make her prepared for her career as a child prodigy (ll.17-20). At the beauty traing school, her daughter messes up her hair and Jing-mei’s mother gets angry and calls her daughter a “Chiniese negro“(l.19-21). This line shows how important the career of Jing-mei is for her mother. She want everything to be perfect and gets quickyly strict and annoyed when something does not work out how she wants it.
Besides that Jing-mei’s mother is very ambitious. She tests every night after dinner her daughter by asking her questions from magazines that she takes with her after cleaning the houses of other people. She also takes other children as examples to show her daughter what kind of talent this children have (ll.36-39). In addiition, Jing-mei’s mother is very relentless, she makes the tests harder and overexerts her daughter by asking her questions that she can not answe (ll.50-52). This behaviour of Jing-mei’s mother pushes Jing-mei under pressure and lets her feel like a failure because most of the questions she can´t answer properly.
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