In "Two Kinds," one of the chapters of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Suyuan Woo becomes jealous of her friend Lindo Jong because Lindo's daughter, Waverly, is a chess champion who has received a lot of attention for her success. Suyuan reasons that if Waverly can be a prodigy, Jing-Mei can be one, too. After considering several different areas in which Jing-Mei could be a prodigy, Suyuan decides the piano is the most feasible. She agrees to clean a neighbor's apartment for free in exchange for piano lessons and two hours of piano access a day for Jing-Mei. Jing-Mei is initially excited to learn the piano, but quickly becomes disheartened when she does not immediately become good at it. This ultimately leads to a big clash between Suyuan and Jing-Mei in which Jing-Mei tells her mother that she wishes she was dead like her two older twin half-sisters, who Suyuan had to abandon when she fled China.
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