Question

Read the passage from "Two Kinds. (Links to an external site.)” And I started to play. It was so beautiful. I was so caught up in how lovely I looked that at first I didn’t worry how I would sound. So it was a surprise to me when I hit the first wrong note and I realized something didn’t sound quite right. And then I hit another and another followed that. A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down. Yet I couldn’t stop playing, as though my hands were bewitched. I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track. I played this strange jumble through two repeats, the sour notes staying with me all the way to the end. How is this passage an example of an internal conflict? Group of answer choices

A) It describes the narrator’s inability to stop playing when she wants to do so.

B) It describes the narrator’s unexpected enjoyment of performing in front of an audience.

C) It describes the narrator’s thoughts and feelings as she struggles through a poor performance.

D) It describes the results of the narrator’s refusal to practice diligently and learn to play the piano correctly.

Answer 1

B) It describes the narrator’s unexpected enjoyment of performing in front of an audience.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

This passage is an example of internal conflict because:

It describes the narrator’s thoughts and feelings as she struggles through a poor performance, Option B.

Step-by-step explanation:

"Two kinds" by "Amy Tan" highlights two conflicts in the characters: external and internal. Jing-Mei's mother believes that her daughter could become anything she wants in America but her daughter, Jing-Mei has apprehensions about the same.

The given excerpt, shows the narrator's feelings in which she is struggling through her poor performance. She mentions that she experienced a chill in her head, she realized that she was not playing well. So, it shows her internal conflict where her performance was a sheer disaster.