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Comparing Society's Ideas In Boys And Girls By Alice Munro

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Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” is a story of a young girl struggling against society’s ideas of how a girl should behave and the roles a girl is forced into. Throughout this story we chronical the emotional changes a young girl goes through while living on her father’s fox farm during the 1940s. She starts as an innocent, naïve girl who takes pride in completing the outdoor chores alongside her father and brother. She has been her father’s helper for years and does what she can to escape the unexciting and monotonous work her mother completes inside the house. As time goes on, it becomes clear to her that she is expected to behave like a “girl” and start taking on the female duties.

This quote represents her change is perception of what
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