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Consider The Roles/Expectations In Boys And Girls By Alice Monroe

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Topic: Consider the roles/expectations of males and females and what impact gender has on the way they live their lives.

In the short story “Boys and Girls” by Alice Monroe, the roles/expectations of males and females affect both Laird and the Narrator. They are affected by these roles/expectations because they are both expected to do certain jobs. They are expected to do this because of their gender. First off, since the narrator is a female she is looked upon as someone who does jobs inside of the house just like her mother. Instead she is often outside doing jobs with her father. This quotation shows how she describes her mother; “She looked out of place, with her bare lumpy legs, not touched by the sun, her apron still on and damp across

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