1. Alice Munro's "Boy's and Girls" is a story about a girl entering into womanhood while growing up on a fox farm.
1. The young girl learns to grow up as a fox farmer and perform the everyday typical farm tasks of a
male.
1. "I filled the water drum at the pump and trundled it down through the barnyard to the pens"
(91-92)
2. The girl loved to follow her father around on the farm and help out. Her brother was younger
and weaker so she could skip regular woman tasks.
2. The mother wanted her daughter to take on the typical role of a farm girl and help with cooking,
cleaning, preparing food, etc.
1. "Wait till Laird gets a little bigger, then you'll have a real help" (162).
2. However, the girl didn't want that and after doing what her mother asked would quickly
escape form the kitchen back out to the barn. The mother could see this and started plotting
how she would keep her inside.
3. The girl starts to realize that she has no choice but to fill the woman role on a farm and become her
mother, that was the path she was forced by her family to realize.
1. "Girls don't slam doors like that. Girls keep their knees together when they sit down" (228-
229).
2. "She's only a girl." "I didn't protest that, even in my heart. Maybe it was true" (451-453)
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