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    A Study Guide for Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls"
    A Study Guide for Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls"
    A Study Guide for Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls"
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    A Study Guide for Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls"

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    A Study Guide for Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535819862
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      Boys and Girls

      Alice Munro

      1968

      Introduction

      Boys and Girls was first published in 1968 in The Montrealer, before it was collected with fourteen other stories and published in Alice Munro’s first edition of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968). The story, narrated by a young girl, details the time in her life when she leaves childhood and its freedoms behind and realizes that to be a girl is to be, eventually, a woman. The child begins to understand that being socially typed entails a host of serious implications. Thus becoming a girl on the way to womanhood is a time fraught with difficulties for the young protagonist because she senses that women are considered the social inferiors of men. Initially, she tries to prevent this from occurring by resisting her parents’ and grandparents’ attempts to train her in the likes, habits, behavior, and work of women. This resistance, however, proves to be useless. The girl ends the story clearly socially positioned as a girl, something which she apprehends with some trepidation. The story is thus a feminist parable of sorts, where a girl bucks against a future that will prevent her from doing, socially, whatever she might please. Although most of Munro’s work does not have such clear and cogent feminist interest, this story eloquently attests to how women worked during this century to change their social position

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