Question

“Well, I probably can't play anymore,” I said. “It's been years.”

“You pick up fast,” said my mother, as if she knew this was certain. “You have natural talent. You could been genius if you want to.”

“No, I couldn’t.”

“You just not trying,” said my mother. And she was neither angry nor sad. She said it as if to announce a fact that could never be disproved. “Take it,” she said.

–“Two Kinds,”
Amy Tan

What causes the conflict between the characters in this passage?

Answer 1

The child seems like they aren't good enough to do whatever it is the mother insists she's good at. The mother thinks highly of her child, and knows her child can do anything she wants to. But the child is just not confident.

Answer 2

The mother believes that her daughter is not trying her best, and the daughter disagrees.

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