The first occurrence of the phrase “only a girl” was when the narrator’s father told the salesman that “Like to have you meet my new hired man” and the salesman responds “Thought it was only a girl” and the second occurrence was at the end of the story when the narrator’s father finds out that she intentionally let Flora out of the barn. They referred to her as “only a girl” because by the time this story took place men and women were not equal. Men were the dominant figure in the house. They do outside job and provides for the family while women were just subjected to only household works. They sees her as weak and in cable of doing farm work. She is expected, like the women before her, to adopt the gender stereotype which comes with her growing
