[영미문학] 영미 단편 소설 Two kinds by Amy Tan 작품 분석(영문)
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분야
hwp2. Plot Summary
3. Characters in "Two Kinds"
4. Symbolism
5. Conclusion
In the story “Two Kinds,” the narrator is a Chinese American girl who is locked in a struggle over her identity with her Chinese immigrant mother, who believes “that you could be anything you wanted to be in America.” This particular struggle invokes the mother’s attempt to mold her daughter into a musical prodigy so that she will be able to brag to her friend whose daughter is a precocious chess champion. The idea for piano lessons comes from television and popular magazines. The narrator and her mother watch Shirley Temple movies and try to imagine her as a child star. The mother also reads countless“
stories about remarkable children”in the magazines. The mother's vague ambitions for her daughter take shape one night when they are both watching the Ed Sullivan Show. There they see a little Chinese girl playing a piano solo. Sure enough, just three days after the watching the show, the narrator’s mother has already arranged to trade housecleaning for piano lessons with Mr. Chong, the retired piano teacher in the building. A fierce struggle ensues between the mother’s desire to make her daughter into a prodigy (more to satisfy her own ego), and the daughter’s resistance to her mother’s efforts to make her into someone she is not. The narrator’s strategy is one of quiet and passive resistance. She lies about her practice time and does only what she has to do during her lessons. Subsequently, her mother has no idea how poor and undisciplined a musician she is. At her piano recital, her awful, unpracticed playing embarrasses herself as well as her mother. Much to the narrator’s shock, however, her
