Gender Roles in Alice Munro’s Boys and Girls

The role of gender always exists in society in both past and present. In most families, taking care of the house is the responsibility of the woman. This includes cleaning, preparing meals, childcare, caring for children and husbands. Compared to men cherishing more physical activities such as work in the courtyard. Over the years, women have a responsibility to stay at home, it is known that men are out going out to find work for their families.

Alice Munro 's short story "Boys and Girls" is a story about the lifestyle of the 1940' s, and men and women have specific roles dominated by gender. They should learn these roles like children and agree with adults. As the title suggests, men and women play independent and independent roles, and no one else is integrated elsewhere. Munro chose to say "boys and girls" rather than saying "girls and boys." He is excellent and she obeys him. Munro explained the story with the voice of a girl, but she did not name the girl. She has no role as a girl is important. Interestingly, Munro named the boy "Laird". This is another name for "Lord." The narrator wishes the reader to know that even though the boy is a young man, he is superior to his sister, the Lord. Also interesting is how the narrator starts a story. "My father is a fox farmer" and "I have not grown up on a fox farm".

Alice Munroe's short story "Boys and Girls" discovers the meaning of becoming a girl through young girls and explores the various roles of men and women in society. A careful study of the elements of the short story used in "boys and girls" will help us understand the meaning of the story. The story took place in the fox of the suburb of Jubilee in the 1940s, only 32 miles from the county prison. The farm reflects the wisdom and wisdom of the narrator's father. The fox of the fox is properly placed in a high guard rail like "medieval town". Each pen contains a dog house, a wooden lamp, and a cutlery attached to a barbed wire. Fox farm is a place of father's field, diligence and creativity, and the talker seems to be at home. The house itself is a mother's farm, but this place avoids many elements of the female world, so it is a place the narrator avoids.