“Two Kinds” is a short story by Amy Tan narrated by Jing-mei. In the end, Jing-mei notices the piece “Perfectly Contented” and sees that it is longer and faster than “Pleading Child,” which was “shorter but slower.” She then realizes that these two pieces “were two halves of the same song.” This means that the music pieces represent Jing-mei, as she played both parts and while the parts are different from each other they come together to form on whole piece, one individual; Jing-mei. When Jing-mei was younger she was the “Pleading Child.” Her mother wanted her to be a prodigy so she set off to find what her daughter could be successful at. Jing-mei did not like this and “got so bored I started counting the bellows of the foghorns out on the
