Rose may have felt the need to prove to her mother, in her own mind, that she is capable of making her own decisions. She was unwilling to let her mother, Flo, warn her about the dangers of the real world and wanted to see things for herself. "She did not believe anything Flo said on the subject of sex" (Munro 460). Rose is already preparing for her journey into womanhood because she is ready to think for herself. Even if her thoughts aren't the right ones they are hers and hers alone and she feels that in making her own decisions she can face the consequences that follow. In anything Flo told her or warned about she consciously shoved it aside and decided to be her own person and think her own way. This step th

Unmistakably Rose has a desire to lose her innocent childishness and become a woman. It is evident in the way that she is going over everything she is going to do for the day before she gets started. First of all, taking a train ride by herself for the first time, and second for what her intentions are of what she will be getting. "...silver bangles and powder blue angora. She thought they could transform her, make her calm and slender and take the frizz out of her hair, dry her underarms and turn her complexion to pearl" (Munro 462). Obviously these things aren't ones of which a child would want to purchase but of ones in which someone who is older and concerned about more adult things. Rose's ultimate reasoning, in her conscious, for going on this trip alone was to prove her maturity to herself and her mother. At the start of the train ride she figures that buying all of these items will show that she is on her way to becoming a woman. At the end of the train ride Rose was transformed into a woman by something more emotionally changing rather than a change in physical appearance. Rose no longer was as concerned with what she needed to get in the city that day, all th

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