Out of a mentality of "expecting her son to succeed and her daughter to succeed", Jingmei's mother hopes that Jingmei will strive to become a pianist, become famous and be widely recognized by the society. After Jingmei learned of her mother's decision, she began to panic and subconsciously resist.
In the following process, she found that even if she tried hard, she could not meet her mother's ardent expectations, so she decided not to do what her mother said, but to go her own way and just want to be herself.
In fact, it is still difficult for Jingmei to understand her mother's motives and pains when she recalls these past events twenty years later. Amy Tan reveals the contradiction between mother and daughter in different cultural backgrounds through her entanglement with her mother.
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Two kinds of people is the eighth story of The Joy Luck Club. This bestseller "interweaves the complex relations and contradictions between women in the family due to the generation gap and different cultural backgrounds"? (schilb？ 346), these stories are basically based on the author Amy Tan's personal family conflicts and cultural conflicts between China and the United States.
The Joy Luck Club was adapted into a movie of the same name in 1993, directed by China director Wang Ying. The Joy Luck Club is the first novel of Amy Tan, a famous Chinese American woman writer, and also her famous work. It was a great success as soon as it was published. It has been on the best-seller list in The New York Times for eight months in a row, and it was immediately adapted into a film of the same name, which had a far-reaching impact.
The novel describes the life experiences of four China women with different personalities and fates who abandoned the national tragedy and family feuds and moved to the United States, and their daughters who were born and raised in the United States.
As the mothers of the first generation of immigrants, although they are already in a foreign country, they are still out-and-out China women. National disasters and family feuds can be left behind, but we can't leave behind our family ties with the motherland. Daughters born in the United States, although they look like their mothers, grew up in different values and environments from China and had to bear the collision of two cultures and values.
There is a deep and lasting blood relationship between mother and daughter, and there is helpless resentment between them. They care about each other and hurt each other ... but they are still the Chinese mother who transcends everything, and the mother and daughter who are thicker than water are affectionate.