Most of the story talk about how to complete domestic duties like sewing, ironing, cleaning the house, hygiene, setting the table, etc. It seems like it is important for the mother to relate it to her daughter because that was the definition of a good woman in those times. Some examples in the story are when the mother tells her daughter " This is how to sew on a button, this is how you iron your father's khaki pants so that they do not have crease, this is how you sweep a hole house"(128). All these things that the mother is telling to her girl is because at some point the daughter is going to need those tips.
