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Amy Tan Sympathy
The events in Amy Tan’s story, “ Two Kinds”, cause the reader to feel sympathy for both the mother and the daughter. In the story, the daughter is put through countless tests and longs to prove her importance and the mother has struggled with losing people important to her. After reading over the story, I found that I most sympathize with the daughter because of her constant struggle of failure and not feeling like she is enough. One quote that shows my claim above is in the third paragraph of the short story; “

My mother and father would adore me. I would be beyond reproach. I would never feel the need to sulk, or to clamor for a thing. But sometimes the prodigy in my because impatient. ‘ If you don’t hurry up and get me out of here, I’m

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