![]() Waverly subtly insults Jing-mei during the dinner, mentioning her choice of hairdresser. Woo ends up with the maimed one, which she doesn't eat. ![]() At dinner, Waverly takes the best crab for her child, and Mrs. When she sees the extra person, she decides to cook the eleventh crab, the one missing a limb. Woo hadn't counted Waverly's daughter, Shoshana, and so she purchased only ten whole crabs. There are eleven people at the New Year's celebration. Woo begins to boil the crabs she cannot bear to see them die. When they return home, Jing-mei watches her mother cook, but she leaves the room when Mrs. After a lengthy discussion, the fishmonger threw it in for free. Woo refused to accept it because a maimed crab is bad luck for the New Year. As she was spearing the live crabs from the tank, one of them lost a limb. Jing-mei listened patiently to her mother as she poked the crabs to find the liveliest ones. She was especially bothered by their cat, which Jing-mei and the tenants suspect that she poisoned. That day, her mother was annoyed about the tenants living in the second-floor apartment of a six-unit building that she owns. Jing-mei had helped her mother shop for the crabs that she served at the New Year's dinner. Later, Jing-mei will notice other Chinese wearing similar pendants and will ask one of them what the pendant signifies. After her mother's death, however, the pendant will begin to assume great importance to her - even though she does not really understand the meaning that her mother assigned to it. I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations.After a Chinese New Year's dinner, Jing-mei's mother gave her a jade pendant which she said was her "life's importance." At first, Jing-mei did not like the pendant it seemed too big and ornate. My mothers disappointed face, something inside me began to die. With another defeat, the insecure child lamented, "After seeing, once again, capitals and those of most of the European countries, Jing-Mei again experienced failure. After seemingly endless tests of world capitals so that Jing-Mei could surpass the three-year-old prodigy capable of namingĪll of the U.S. The lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. During her rigorous beauty training, she mused wistfully, "In all of my imaginings I was filled withĪ sense that I would soon become perfect: My mother and father would adore me. Was obviously the antithesis of Jing-Mei - her insecurity began to increase. When her mother attempted to transform her into the Chinese-American equivalent of Shirley Temple - which which Prodigy her daughter was, Jing-Mei was wracked secretly by feelings of self-doubt. Woo busied herself in deciding which type of child ![]() ![]() However, the traits that most effectively define her character are insecurity, rebelliousness, and pride. The protagonist Jing-Mei is a willful and complex young woman This generated the conflict between mother and daughter that forms the basisįor Amy Tans famous short story, "Two Kinds," which is featured in her collection entitled The Joy Luck Club. She pushed her daughter towards what she believed defined success in America - beauty, intellect, and talent. ![]() Woo sought to grab the American Dream and the prosperity that went along with it for her daughter. Hardship she had endured in their native land. Unformatted sample text from the term paper: In three pages this paper describes three significant personality traits (insecurity, rebelliousness, and pride) that characterize protagonist Jing-Mei Woo in Amy Tan’s story, “Two Kinds.” There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography. Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Jing-Mei Woo’s Personality Traits in Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”. ![]()
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