"Two kinds" is a story written by Amy Tan. This story is basically about the expectations parents have for their children and the children's rebellious and bitter attitude towards both their parents and the expectations. In this story, a Chinese mother wants her daughter to be prodigious. She does all sorts of tests on her daughter Jing-mei to figure out what sort of special talent she possesses. The daughter feels resentment towards her mother. She believes that her mother is trying to turn her into a person she is not and does everything to rebel against her mother. When her mother decided that her special talent was playing the piano, Jing-mei never practiced and instead, planned on embarrassing her mother by playing badly in church and putting an end to her pride: "I was determined to put a stop to her foolish pride."

This story is quite direct...