Boys and Girls By Alice Munro

Because the fear of change is a part of human nature, quite often society will not accept you until you've become the person they expect you to be. In
Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls," a young girl, whose name is never mentioned, struggles through growing up out of a child into society's expectations of a young
lady. Although at first she does not take any interest in becoming that person, she later wonders if it is her unavoidable destiny. Society sets boundaries for everything and everyone and this girl attempts and fails to break through the boundaries of being a female.
The girl lives in a house with her mother, a stereo-typical house wife, her younger brother Laird, and her father, a fox farmer whom she adored. In their house, "on the other side of the stairwell were things that nobody had any use for anymore." This foreshadows how the girl would feel once her brother was a little older and was able to help her father with the outdoor 'mens' jobs.' "That made me no u...