Summary Of 'Boys And Girls And The Birth Mark' By Alice Munro

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In the short stories, Boys and Girls by, Alice Munro and The Birth Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne, each author has shown similarities of two young women who seem to change their appearance or personality to conform to the desires of strong male figures in their lives. Topic Sentence: Both stories represent this by Georgiana’s eventual willingness to change her appearance and ultimately remove her birthmark that her husband found unattractive even after her lifetime of valuing it as a part of who she was in The Birth Mark, as well as in Boys and Girls, the main character’s goal of seeking attention and extreme need to be accepted by her father as a more strong and masculine child although she still showed personality traits of being weak and immature. A. Support 1. “Georgiana said he, has it never occurred to you that the …show more content…

As the consequences for her changing who she was she died from it. A. Support 1. “One time a feed salesman came down into the pens to talk to him and my father said, "Like to have you meet my new hired man." I turned away and raked furiously, red in the face with pleasure. "Could of fooled me," said the salesman. "I thought it was only a girl"(Munro 141). 2. It represents her desire to be what her father wants her to be and the secret satisfaction she gets by making him proud. This quote shows how her father recognizes her hard work around the farm and that she is competent enough as a strong and boyish figure for him to express his pride in her to others. B. Support 1. “My legs were a little shaky and I jumped gratefully down into the hay. “Now you’ve seen how they shoot a horse,” I said in a congratulatory way, as if I had seen it many times before”(Munro 144). “Instead of shutting the gate, I opened it as wide as I could. I did not make any decision to do this, it was just what I did”(Munro 146). 2. It shows weakness in the personality that she's trying to build as a tough and masculine child, someone that her father wants and

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