For instance, the protagonist struggles with wanting to be in the barn with her father and discovering the world says a young girl belongs in the house with her mother. To demonstrate the conflict Munro writes, “This winter I also began to hear a great deal more on the theme my mother had sounded when she had been talking in front of the barn”. “I no longer felt safe.” In addition to hearing who the world says she should be, she discovers herself feeling different after observing her dad kill the horse, Mack and she explains “I did not have any great feelings of horror”, but “yet I felt a little ashamed, and there was a new wariness, a sense of holding-off, in my attitude to my father and his work” (Munro). The protagonist’s resistance to who she wants to be and who the world says she should be is the conflict that begins her transition from child to young
For instance, the protagonist struggles with wanting to be in the barn with her father and discovering the world says a young girl belongs in the house with her mother. To demonstrate the conflict Munro writes, “This winter I also began to hear a great deal more on the theme my mother had sounded when she had been talking in front of the barn”. “I no longer felt safe.” In addition to hearing who the world says she should be, she discovers herself feeling different after observing her dad kill the horse, Mack and she explains “I did not have any great feelings of horror”, but “yet I felt a little ashamed, and there was a new wariness, a sense of holding-off, in my attitude to my father and his work” (Munro). The protagonist’s resistance to who she wants to be and who the world says she should be is the conflict that begins her transition from child to young