Two Kinds Characters

In “Two Kinds”, Jing-mei woo is also known as June and her personality traits are illustrated throughout the story. June displays impatient tendencies. June does not allow the time it would take to become the creation her mother wants her to be. She asks her mother why she is not happy with her. In response, her mother slaps her and tells that she is ungrateful. Jing-mei is resentful towards her mother. Suyuan takes it upon herself to make Jing-mei into a piano prodigy. Jing-mei plots revenge in taking advantage of her piano lessons. Jing-mei knows why Mr.Chong had retired. He is deaf. Occasionally Jing-mei practices but for the most part she simply tricks Mr. Chong into thinking she is practicing. Really, she plays whatever popped into mind. She never really did learn the piece. At the contest, Jing-mei's performance was mediocre. Her mother was embarrassed and Jing-mei figured that she was done with piano lessons, only to learn she would continue to practice playing piano.
Jing-mei refuses to play the piano anymore. Her mother, frustrated of her stubbornness, pulls her up by her arm and sets her on the bench of the piano. Her mother yelled in Chinese, “only two kinds of daughters. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!"(Tan, 228). Jing-mei yells in anger, "Then I wish I wasn’t your daughter. I wish you weren’t my mother. I wish I’d never been born. I wish I were dead! Like them!" in reference to her twin sisters that were killed in China (Tan, 228). Piano lessons were never mentioned again. As time progressed, an older Jing-mei admits that she intentionally, on occasion, failed tasks because she wanted to rebel against her mother. She disappointed her mother