Boys and Girls
...tasy and dreams. Unrealistically, the narrator believes that she would be on use to her father more and more as she got older. However, the differences between boys and girls become more clear. Her first experience with this was when a salesman stopped by and she was introduced as “her father’s new hired hand.” But the salesman remarks, “I thought it was only a girl.” The narrator realizes that there is no escape from the pre-determined duties that go along with the passage of a child into being a girl into a woman. Knowing she is expected to become a girl and conform to society’s beliefs and norms, she expresses her desire to rebel against what is expected. The narrator’s grandmother is an example of this when she says, “Girls keep their knees together when they sit down.” Then the narrator “sits awardily as possible.” In making an effort to aid in the escape of Flora, the narrator shows her resistance to wh...