Boys And Girls By Alice Munro

“Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro is a story that depicts the change of an unidentified female character. At the beginning, the narrator was a dutiful individual, always eager to help with her father’s business, however, as the story progresses, she slowly lets her emotions guide her, as she becomes an empathetic person which ultimately becomes her weakness. The narrator is a dutiful daughter, who obeys her father diligently. She is driven by a desire to perform well and “worked willingly under his eyes and with a feeling of pride” (Munro 48-49). The girl thinks very highly of her father and strives to impress him by performing all her tasks flawlessly. However, this attitude is missing when she is doing chores inside the house with her mother.