What conflict occurs in the passage?
read the passage from amy tan's "rules of the game."
one day, after we left a shop i said under my breath, "i wish
you wouldn't do that, telling everybody i'm your daughter."
my mother stopped walking. crowds of people with heavy
bags pushed past us on the sidewalk, bumping into first one
shoulder, then another.
"aiya. so shame be with mother? " she grasped my hand
even tighter as she glared at me.
i looked down. "it's not that it's just so obvious. it's just so
embarrassing."
"embarrass you be my daughter? " her voice was cracking
with anger.
"that's not what i meant. that's not what i said."
what you say? "
i knew it was a mistake to say anything more, but i heard
an internal conflict within the mother, who wants her
daughter to grow up but does not want to let her go
an internal conflict within the daughter, who wants to be a
grand master but does not want anyone to know about it
an external conflict between the mother, who wants to
show off her famous daughter, and the daughter, who
feels used
an external conflict between the mother and the
nelthborhood over the social pressure on the mother to
be successful
save and exit
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