In Amy Tans story Two Kinds is a battle between two generations one being a Chinese American girl named Jing Mei and her mother a Chinese immigrant pursuing the American dream for her daughter Jing Mei is very much an American conditioned teenager and her mother is very much a Chinese born mother with her beliefs in child rearing extreme and absolute One key thing to remember in the story is Jing Mei is the child in the story while she can rebel she is dependent on her mother She is a restless