What exactly is the American dream? For many individuals the so-called American dream might vary. In “two kind” by Amy Tan the mother whom is a Chinese immigrant wishes that her first generation American daughter accomplish everything she couldn’t and even wishes that her daughter becomes a prodigy. This hope to acquire the American dream bring tension in the mother and daughter relationship and she in between these two kind of dreams her mothers dream for her and her own dreams. Also, this writing emphasizes the relationship of an immigrant mother and her Chinese American daughter and the tension cause of the American culture that clashes with mother Chinese culture and leads into miscommunication. Also, what might seem like the mother want …show more content…
The mother is accustomed to her Chinese culture and has trouble letting go a bit and integrating into the American culture. First, we can see this sort of comparison between the main character and her cousin made their mothers in "You lucky you don't have this problem," Auntie Lindo said with a sigh to my mother. And my mother squared her shoulders and bragged: "our problem worser than yours. If we ask Jing-mei wash dish, she hear nothing but music. It's like you can't stop this natural talent." () This might come off as gossip and bad to compare and compete in American society but in the stories the moms seem to be accustomed to sharing accomplishment. In reality the mothers in a way might just feel like pushing their daughters to do better will also make them part of their accomplishment and in a way I feel like the mother is trying to make her do everything she was not able to do back in china and she believes that in American there are more opportunity of becoming better in life because of the opportunity provide by the so called ‘American dream’. Amy Tan also mentions in “Mother Tongue” “And this makes me think that there are other Asian-American students whose English spoken in the home might also be described as "broken" or "limited." And perhaps they …show more content…
Wang, Qun states in “"Double Consciousness," Sociological Imagination, and the Asian American Experience” that “The book starts with the mothers' stories about telling their experience in China and their journey to the United States and it ends with them coming to the conclusion that, as much as they would like to believe they are still a hundred percent Chinese, they all have two faces: one Chinese and one American.”(93) This is part of them realizing they had to find middle ground in both cultures and also adjust to the American culture and also Wang states that double consciousness often occurs in where we act two different ways depending on the people that surrounded us and this is noticeable in two kinds when the main author tries to behave like the mother would like her until she finds sort of her own identity. This relates to what Amy Tan states in “Mother Tongue” “ nature of the talk was about my writing, my life, and my book, The Joy Luck Club... My mother was in the room. And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her…all the forms of standard English that I had learned in school and through books, the forms of English I did not use at home with my mother.”(Tan) This shows how we use double consciousness, just