Amy Tan Two Kinds Conflict

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The short story "Two Kinds" was written by Amy Tan. When I first read this story, I felt that I had a connection with the narrator. The story uses all five key elements from the beginning of the story till the end. The most important and necessary elements that I found make the story as great as it is are character, setting, theme, conflict, and point of view. Of these five elements, I noticed that two stood out to me the whole time I was reading the story and both elements made me want to keep reading the story until the end. Amy Tan uses character and conflict in her short story "Two Kinds" to help her audience create thoughts, reactions, and feelings toward the two main characters.
Within the third paragraph of the story, I already had feelings
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