Gender Issues In The Story "Boys And Girls" By Alice Munro

Through the children in the study Boys and Girls by Alice Murno we see how preconceived sex roles effect young children. When looking at gender roles it is evoke to see how the roles of women and men effect the outlook of our children. Working with children I see that gender issues still exist, for example parents persuade their sons to knead sports and their daughters to play with dolls, and heaven forbid if either takes a propensity the opposite genders perceived role. A boy who plays with dolls is looked at as a sissy and a fille who plays football is looked at as a tomboy. This can be seen in the story Boys and Girls by Alice Murno.

The young girl in the story looks up to her father. The father in the story is Fox Farmer, strong, a labored worker that has an exciting yet dangerous job. The little girl is excited by this and honors to spend time helping him; her chores involve giving the foxes water and cutting branches to be used to keep the foxes shade. The little girl feels Work done out doors, and in my fathers service, was ritualistically important. Her father refers to her has one of his hired men around friends, this makes her laughing(prenominal) to be accepted as one of the guys.

Although the girl does love her mother she feels the jobs of a housewife are boring and not something she wants to do. It seemed to me that work in the house was endless, dreary and peculiarly depressing.  Her chores presumption by her mother differed greatly from the ones of her father I was granted jobs to do and I would sit at the table strip peaches that had been soaked in hot water, or cutting...

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