"Two Kinds" Mother & Daughter Conflict

The conflict between Mother and Jing-mei is that Mother wants her to become a prodigy, famous at ba young age. Mother pushes Jing-mei to become something that she doesn't want to be. Jing-mei fails to meet her mother's expectations, but Mother had a new plan for her. She wanted Jing-mei to play the piano. Jing-mei felt like Mother was only doing this to satify herself, but Jing-mei didn't want to be a prodigy, she wanted to be herself. For example, when Jing-mei looked at herself in the mirror and saw a girl who didn't want to be what she isn't. She got frustrated with Mother and her decisions she is making for Jing-mei's future.