Boys And Girls By Alice Munro Analysis

Assorted So much progress has been made within the last years to make everyone equal. First by ending slavery in the late 1860s and then by giving the women the right to vote in the 1920s. Even after all this progress so much inequality is still around as for example, an women not getting paid the same as a men or not being able to work in a certain work field because it’s a manly job. In Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meaning of Gender by Aaron Devor, he says that “People use feminism or masculinity to claim and communicate their membership in their assigned, or chosen, sex or gender” (427). Although society tries to assemble gender into specific roles since childhood, eventually each individual identifies themselves. For many centuries …show more content…
A great example of this is the story Boys and Girls by Alice Munro, in this story we can see the change within the family as the children grow older. As they get older the …show more content…
It is saying that the wife’s have no say, Chudleigh claims that “Wife and servant are the same” (904). It is making the husband look as if he is the law or as if he is god. Just like in Boys and girls by Alice Munro it is claiming that women are just helpless. They are just there to take care of the husband’s needs and any obligation with the children. In Girl by Jamaica Kincaid we see the same pattern as in To the Ladies. In the short story Girl, we have the mother talking to her daughter giving her advice and guidance of how to do chores. The mother is trying to teach her daughter everything she knows even though she is still young like Devor said “children absorb the generalized standard of society into their personal concept of what is correct behavior” (426). The mother repeats herself quite a lot to warn the daughter to stay on the path of becoming a great