Read the passage from "Two kinds."
Which conflicts are revealed in the passage? Select two
options.
"You want me to be something that I'm not!" I sobbed. "I'll
never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!"
an internal conflict within the narrator, who is frightened by
the extremity of her anger at her mother
an external conflict between the narrator, who is
demanding independence, and her mother, who is
demanding obedience
"Only two kinds of daughters," she shouted in Chinese.
"Those who are obedient and those who follow their own
mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house.
Obedient daughter!"
"Then I wish I weren't your daughter. I wish you weren't my
mother," I shouted. As I said these things I got scared. It felt
like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my
chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had
surfaced, at last.
an external conflict between the narrator and her mother
over whether or not the narrator will continue to live at
home
"Too late change this," said my mother shrilly,
an internal conflict within the narrator's mother, who cannot
decide whether to throw her daughter out of the family
home
And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I
wanted see it spill over. And that's when I remembered the
babies she had lost in China, the ones we never talked
an external conflict between the narrator, who wants to be
the kind of daughter her mother wants and her mother