What does Jing-mei expect will happen at the recital? Does she plan to give the kind of performance that she gives? Why or why not?
Why is the narrator's mother so fixated on making her daughter into some kind of prodigy? Besides the competition with Lindo Jong, what larger cultural forces may be encouraging her to think this way?
At the end of the story the narrator notices that the piece of music that she struggled with as a child ("Pleading Child").....
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