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Gender Roles In Boys And Girls By Alice Munro

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Gender roles in our society has been around for many decades; dictating people how to act, deciding what types of jobs are meant for men or women and much more. Gender in “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro is the key theme of this short story as it focuses on gender stereotyping and limitations imposed on the narrator as she grows into an adult. At the end narrator learns and embraces this gender assignment. Interestingly, this embracement of her role also enables her to see her new sensibilities as superior than of her father’s and brother’s.

The gender role in this text can be found through highly detailed comparisons the narrator describes . The world of inside the house is contrasted against the world outside. Simply put, outside

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