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In this paper I put a critical reflection on a symbolic crisis of identity found in Amy Tan's Two Kinds in which the narrator, Jing-mei narrates her conflict with her mother with regard to Jing-mei's being a prodigy. The nature of this work is a critical critique of Mrs. Woo's intention to make her daughter, Jing-mei Woo thriving on the chosen identity goals. The tension state comes into the plot, when Mrs. Woo's chosen identity goals meet interruption from her daughter's side because her daughter reflects on free will while her mother expects typical Chinese obedience from her daughter. Jing-mei has to go through several tests by her mother; but ultimately fails. The mother-daughter relationship reaches its climax, when in the struggle mother asks daughter questions of identity; and daughter rebels against mother and her unreasonable pathways. The story has actually a poignant failure of both mother-daughter relationship; relevant indicators of identity; and a lack of effective communication between mother and daughter regarding to a self-defining, or a non-self defining goal. However, the American renaissance that is said to bring pathways to success has its close link with the identity politics in which identity is performed, tested, and changed.

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“Why don’t you like me the way I am? I’m not a genius”: A Mistakable Understanding of a Child Prodigy in Amy Tan's Two Kinds, the Symbolic Crisis of Identity in the Specific Contexts of the American Dream.