She begins to cry fearing that her father will no longer trust her. However, when her father does not get angry, but blames her action on the fact that “she is only a girl” (Munro 147), the young woman seems to accept his explanation. He said: “I didn't protest against this, not even in my heart. “Maybe it was true” (Munro 147). At that point, it is possible to understand that the girl who once considered her mother silly and stupid for talking about boys and dancing was becoming that girl. She was accepting for herself a gender role in society based on going to dances and being with the boys instead of feeding the wolves and working on the farm (Rasporich 114). The transformation that occurs in the way the girl thinks Gender roles are not directly described as a question of what is appropriate for men and women. Instead the description is much more subtle, and almost a natural change that occurs in every person (Rasporich 130). It is this subtlety in language that makes readers not only feel sorry for the girl, but also reflect on their own view of gender.
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