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BOYS AND GIRLS Alice Munro's short story, "Boys and Girls," is a story of the way of life in the 1940s, where men and women had specific roles controlled by gender. They were expected to learn those roles as children and conform to them as adults. As the title suggested, males and females played separate and distinct roles from each other, with no one role blending into the other. Instead of saying "Girls and Boys," …

…showed no concern to dismissing his mother and the girl as resenting the subservient female role, and perfected in adulthood, the grandmother, when she visited, reiterated what girls did and did not do. Munro used the girl and her brother to show that in the 1940s men and women, girls and boys, were not equal. They were very far from it. WORK CITED Munro, Alice. "Boys and Girls." Literature For Composition. New York: Longman, 2000. 714-23.