In "Two Kinds," why is the daughter at first excited about her mother's ambitions for her?

In “Two Kinds” June (Jing Mei) is excited that her mother intends to make her a prodigy. While most children would fight against such a plan, June goes along with Suyuan’s ideas at first. She is interested in becoming perfect so that her parents will be pleased and so that she will feel important.
Suyuan makes several attempts to turn June into a child prodigy. However, all fail until June begins taking piano lessons. June says she is “just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so.” She pictures herself in various images which suggest her true reasons for going along with her mother. She compares herself to the infant Christ and to Cinderella. June feels that complying with her mother’s wishes will exalt her in her mother’s eyes. It hurts her deeply when she feels Suyuan is disappointed in her.
June explicitly states her feeling that she “would soon become perfect. My mother and father would adore me. I would be beyond reproach.” Her words clearly tell us that she is looking for approval, something she feels she lacks in her life. June feels that she is not important to others or to herself. She speaks to the prodigy side of herself and imagines it warns her to hurry up and find it—otherwise, it will disappear, and she will “always be nothing.”