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Jing Mei Mother
In the story, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan the characters Jing-Mei and Jing Mei's mother (Suyuan Woo) have different world views and perspectives. They both have extremely different personalities. Jing Mei and her mother are opposites. In the story they are constantly fighting over a topic, but interestingly all their fights are only about one topic, beiong the best. Jing Mei's mother just wants her daughter to become a prodigy, and becasue of this all their "fights" break
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