"For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me" (pg.142). Jing-Mei is daughter of Suyuan. Suyuan wants her to be more like Waverley because Waverley was a chess prodigy. So Suyuan tried to find something that Jing-Mei was good at. They tried singing and dancing and other things until the decided to try the piano. They hired this old Chinese man to teach her piano, but he was deaf, so Jing-Mei was able to get away with playing the wrong notes as long as she kept correct time. At the piano recital, however, she is unprepared and the whole thing is a disaster. Jing-Mei feels like she let her mom down for the rest of her life.
Nobody wants to disappoint their parents. We all want our parents to be proud of us. That's why we try so hard to be the best person we can be. We get so caught up in trying to be the perfect person that we forget that our parents will love us no matter what skills or talents we have.
In this chapter the literary device is dialect. Suyuan has a very distinctive Chinese-American dialect. She speaks broken English in this chapter a lot. Such as when she tells Jing-Mei "No, this your piano, always your piano. You only one can play."
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