If the story "Two Kinds" had been told through Suyuan's point of view, what type of narration would be appropriate?

If the story was told through the mom's point of view, then the narration would still be in first person.  The difference is that Suyuan is telling the story. The type of narration wouldn't change.  What would change is the tone of the story.  "Two Kinds" is normally told from Jing-Mei's perspective.  She's a stubborn, slightly rebellious young girl, so along with that comes her attitude that what her mother is making her do is...

If the story was told through the mom's point of view, then the narration would still be in first person.  The difference is that Suyuan is telling the story. The type of narration wouldn't change.  What would change is the tone of the story.  "Two Kinds" is normally told from Jing-Mei's perspective.  She's a stubborn, slightly rebellious young girl, so along with that comes her attitude that what her mother is making her do is "the worst thing ever."  I hear it all of the time from my junior high students when they talk about their own parents.  

If the story were told from Suyuan's perspective, the narration's tone would move from hopeful and reasoning to angry and exasperated.  In Suyuan's mind it would make perfect sense that her daughter could be the next Shirley Temple with enough hard work.  At first, the narration would continue in the hopeful thread as Jing-Mei goes along with the plans at first.  But as Jing-Mei becomes more obstinate, the narration's tone would shift to the frustrated tone that I hear from a lot of parents at parent teacher conferences.  Suyuan would express the feelings of "why can't you just do what I say" to Jing-Mei.  As a parent of three, I would actually very much like to read the story of "Two Kinds" from Suyuan's perspective, because I think I could related quite well to her tone and interpretation of events.