Boys and Girls, Alice Munro
Alice Munro’s short story, "Boys and Girls," explores the different roles of men and women in society through a young girl’s discovery of what it means to be a girl. A close examination of the elements of a short story as they are used in "Boys and Girls" helps us to understand the meaning of the story.The story is set in the 1940s, on a fox farm outside of Jubilee, a rural area only twenty miles away from the county jail. The farm is a place that reflects the ingenuity of the narrator’s father. The pens for the foxes are arranged in neat rows, inside a high guard fence like a "medieval town". The pens each contain a kennel, a wooden ramp, and dishes attached to the wire fence. The fox farm is the father’s domain, a place of hard work and creativity, in which the narrator feels at home. The house itself is the mother’s domain, but it is a place that the narrator shuns, as she shuns many elements of the feminine world. The contrast between the girl’s concept of the farm and of the house demonstrates the conflict she experiences between her chosen position as her father’s helper and her position in society as a girl. The point of view of the story is first person. The narrator is a young girl in the process of
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Approximate Word count = 1773
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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