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Girls And Boys

There has always been a stereotypical view of how men and women should act in society and what their specific jobs are. The story "Boys and Girls", by Alice Munro, reflects these gender roles in a society where men and women are not equal. This story is told through an adolescents eyes who is going through dramatic changes in her life, and is struggling between being a child and becoming a women. The narrator of this story succeeds in escaping the gender role that is being imposed on her, by not refusing to become a young lady, but becoming a young lady when she is ready for the transition.

In the beginning of the story there are many things that protray the narrators feelings about the different roles men and women play in the society. In the young narrators eyes men have a more dominate role in life, they work outdoors and bring in income for the family. The narrator values the work her father does and prides being called her fathers helping hand. For example, "... a......


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