In “Boys and Girls,” the girl is in a constant struggle between trying to live in an environment that makes her feel content about herself, and her family’s perspective of how she should reside on the basis of what is proper and right in their society. The girl believes that the work her mother and her father have chosen to do is what they have achieved and has been out of their own free …showed first 75 words of 1004 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1004 total…loses the will to work outdoors with her father and go against the social conformity of being a customary woman who takes care of the home. The girl finally recognizes that one individual against a whole society does not have much chance to win the rebellion against domestic work, and the only easy way out is to give up her individual liberty and abide to the gender role that she has ascribed in her life.