Medicine Grizzlybear's Essay 'Two Kinds'

A governess gets to take care of the children and raise them so that they are successful in the future. But no matter how attached a governess became to her charges, she eventually has to let them go and face the fact that she is not the children’s actual mother. This potentially devastating realization plays with the concept of womb envy and baby

Her mother always nags on Connie saying that she should be like June who follows the rules and is a good role model. Her mom tells her, “Why don’t you keep your room clean like your sister?.. You don’t see you sister using that junk” (988). Connie does this so that way she can see what she likes and what she does not like. Connie’s actions also coincide with her being fifteen.

While her reasons for courage are based on the time period this story takes place, there are still woman today who receive scrutiny for not having children or not wanting to get married.It is the ideal that has been passed on from generation to generation that a women must have a family in order to be perceived as successful, yet Mademoiselle Reisz "found it good to dream and to be alone and unmolested" (80). Mademoiselle Reisz's character represents woman who feel as though they are meant for much more than the title wife and mother.

The women of the time didn’t want to throw away their looks by breast feeding their children and would hire wet nurses to do it for them. This idea was challenged by some who thought that women should breastfeed their own children because it was their duty as a mother and it was a sin to not do so. (doc 5) The parents during this time didn’t spend enough time with their children as to not get close to them just incase they die like many other children did. Parents wanted their children to obey them and Savile’s idea to do this was to give them what they want as much as possible so that they will grow up to love and obey

In this case, Jing Mei submits to her mother unwillingly until the argument she has with her mother two days after the talent show, which Jing Mei then falls into a limbo and “asserted… my right to fall short of expectations… I did not believe anything I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me” (153, 154). Even though Jing Mei is finally released from her mother’s restricting grasp and allowed to be whoever she finally wants, she feels inadequate and the disappointment her mother felt in her. Quitting piano ended her misery and despair, and also liberated her, but she effectively alienates herself and severs the ties she has with her mother. The negligible amount of conversation Jing Mei and her mother had is replaced with tension and silence, which prevents her from asking Suyuan about her heritage and through that, knowing her identity.

An example of comparison in the essay would be the differences between the parent wanting to take piano lessons as a child and the daughter not wanting to take piano lessons. As the parent states in the essay “Once I discovered the sound that three fingers simultaneously placed on the right keys could produce, I longed so loudly and consistently for piano lessons…” meaning, she was so amazed by the sound the piano made that she could not resist not taking piano lessons. Whereas the daughter was the opposite as it states “My daughter thinks that I am cruel, that I don't understand her, that I am trying to force her to be something she is not.” indicating that she is feeling forced to do something she doesn't want to because her mom made the decision and is not giving in to her wishes which reinforces the

As she writes she reflects upon herself and what she had growing up. Brooks simply does not want that for her children. She is just like any other ordinary mother and wants what's best for her children and will go to extremes just to make that happen, (shor 2006). As she writes she also states that she wants her children to strive for the best they can achieve without stopping. Gwendolyn was a great mother who wanted nothing but the best outcome for her children as read in this particular

Through the mother we can guess that Emily, when she was old enough to notice her surroundings, hated the care she was given outside of her mother. From going to her father’s relatives to daycare she changed both physically and in her demeanor. Not getting a glimpse into Emily’s head forces the reader to infer what Emily feels towards her mother and her situation based off of the descriptions noticed by her mother. No one around Emily saw the uniqueness her mother did, this leads to the assumption that she became very depressed. If the story was changed to a different perspective the emotions of the mother would get lost or forgotten.

This quote expresses the tone of strict because the mom is telling Amy Tan that she can only live in the house if she is an obedient daughter. The quote, “‘Then I wish I weren’t your daughter, I wish you weren’t my mother,’ I shouted”(Tan 141-142) expresses the tone of hateful because the things Tan said as a child to her mother were just hateful to say. The relationship between this mother and daughter is a poor

The women of the feminine mystique had the choice to become a housewife or obtain a career, although they were pressured by society to adopt the latter, the element of choice was still there for them. It was the difference between what they thought their lives would be and the actual reality which led women to develop discontent, depression and ‘the problem with no name’ . It was this element of choice and the usage of it to the full potential which ties Friedan and Sanger close together, the women of Sanger’s time were limited with their choice for family planning and the lack of knowledge held them back due to child rearing requirements. For the women of the fifties Friedan felt that they were not using their freedom of choice to the full potential and should instead