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Boys and Girls
Title: Boys and Girls
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1319 | Pages: 5.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Boys and Girls
Boys and Girls
Boys and Girls is a short story written by the Canadian short story writer, Alice Munro in 1968. The story is about a young girl who struggles against society’s ideas of how a girl should be, only to find her trapped in the ways of the world. The story takes place on a farm. The narrator is a woman who is telling in the first point of view of when she was …showed first 75 words of 1319 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1319 total…her brother symbolize the roles of males and females in that society. The narrator is forced into doing jobs that she doesn't enjoy doing, namely that associated with women's work at the time. Laird is allowed to do what he pleases. Laird is the lord, as a male he is deemed as the more important of the two, simply because of his sex, while the narrator cast into her womanly role, being of secondary importance.
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