I believe the narrator is unnamed, because of the little significance a girl/woman was given in that times. In comparison with her brother, whose name is Laird( meaning Lord or Baron) in the eyes of their parents he " was going to be their real help" once he grows up, while the narrator was considered just a girl who was supposed to help her mother around the house, wear dresses and behave like a girl. Her work was underappreciated even though she could do more than her brother who was young and careless. The name of her brother and the anonymity of her name symbolize the inequality of roles and the superiority of the male child in their family. This also portrays the traditional roles in a family where women were subordinated to men who were
