Struggle Between Familial Expectations and Individual Desires

Read the following passage from a fictional novel about identity and social expectation:

As the sun dipped below the horizon, casting an amber hue over the crowded streets, Mira felt the familiar weight of her mother’s expectations pressing down on her. The ladies at the weekly book club often whispered about the ‘perfect daughters’ they had raised, each one molded into an ideal of success. Mira’s heart raced with the thought of defying what was laid out for her. She wondered if her dreams of becoming an artist, an unconventional choice in her conservative family, would tarnish her mother’s name. In that fleeting moment, enveloped by laughter yet feeling a profound loneliness, she pondered the cost of authenticity against the fear of failure.