"Two Kinds" Mother & Daughter Conflict

In the conflict between Jing-mei and her mother, Jing-mei has many reasons why she has the right to not listen to her mother any more. If someone’s mother pressures their daughter into doing things that she doesn’t want to do or she can not do, I don’t think that that mother would be a good mother. When Jing-mei’s mother tried to make her into a prodigy, Jing-mei knew that she really was not a prodigy but her mother kept forcing her to try to be one. She would not accept her daughter the ways she is. This shows that Jing-mei’s mother acted like she wanted Jing-mei to be someone else. I think that her mother was full of regret after her two daughters died that they never could be something or someone important. She took out her regret on Jing-mei and tried to make her into something that her daughters might have been. Although the mother was wrong to have forced Jing-mei to do things she did not want to Jing-mei was also wrong to have yelled at her mother for something like practicing the piano. Jing-mei should have communicated to her mother how she felt and never brought up her dead daughters. The mother was trying to be controlling over Jing-mei which I think is wrong. Jing-mei had a right to stop doing what her mother was making her do but she should have communicated better.