The Struggle for Self-Definition in Boys and Girls by Alice Munro

Battle between men and women in self-definition When we are teenagers, we see the world through the eyes of their parents. We will try to define ourselves from our own world. Normally, the birth of our "self" is defined at the moment of reality or the moment of self-recognition. This is the conclusion of a series of events, the result of life's crisis and struggle. In literature, the birth of this "self" is called Epiphany. Alice Munro wrote that she defined her own fight in her "Boys and Girls". She fought between the "inner" world of her mother and the "outside" world of her father. Initially, her father's world was popular,

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.

Alice Munroe's story "Boys and Girls" is a story of enlightenment of the fight of all children when they discover their identity. Through the story, the writer insists that the acceptance of a narrator in her position in society is influenced by her family and the environment. Her resistance is in vain. She has no choice but to adhere to an appropriate woman. In order to be accepted socially, she was obliged to conceal the desire for individualism. The current literature uses a feminist approach to convey the view of oppressed women, but Munro uses limited feminism to allow readers to form their own views on the problem I will.

Society is often responsible for shaping individuals and using rules and boundaries to prevent deviations from their people. When a girl lived in a Canadian Fox farm in the 1940's, her short story "Boys and Girls" shows Alice Munro struggle for consolidation. She still wants to be a strong woman, as she still lives in an era that is focused on male domination, she is wasted when she follows the rules society in which she is embedded. Munro captures her struggle by following her efforts to resist the narrator's attention and desperate fate against her animals.