Projection of a future life of a female in Alice Munro 's stories „Red Dress“ and „Boys and Girls“
By: Selena –Snežana Milić

From birth, children are assigned a gender and are socialized to conform to certain gender roles based on their biological sex. The attitudes and expectations that are involving gender roles are mostly established on stereotypes about the attitudes, characteristics, or behavior patterns of both genders rather than on any inherent or natural gender differences. In this essay, I explore the future life of a female depicted in two short stories, “Red dress” and “Boys and Girls”, from two collections by the Canadian short story writer Alice Munro concerned with a female search for identity which deeply affects their future lives. Projection of a future life of a female character in “Boys’ and girls’’ is present in many events that occurred in girl’s childhood and which therefore contributed in her recognition and acceptance of the womanhood that is her future. The events throughout the Protagonist’s childhood were significant in her establishing as an admirable woman. Throughout the story there are several aspects of the Protagonist’s character that play a major role in the shaping of her future. During her childhood she often demonstrates a sense of fear when she is sent to her bedroom. “We were afraid of the inside, the room where we slept.” She is frightened by her personal space because she does not have