Boys and Girls (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Munro
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Plot: Coming of age
- Time of Work: World War II
- Setting: Southwestern Ontario, Canada
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Laird, Mother, Father, Henry
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Children, Gender roles, World War II, Rural or country life, Emotions, Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, Canada or Canadians, Horses, Foxes
- Locales: Ontario, Canada
The Story
The narrator, an eleven-year-old girl living on a fox-breeding farm with her parents and younger brother, details the work of the farm: the killing, skinning, and preparation of the silver foxes; their feeding and watering; and the killing of horses to get meat to feed the foxes. All this work is a normal and everyday part of life to the narrator, who takes great pride in helping her father with the outdoor chores. She blushes with pleasure when her father introduces her as his “hired man” but dreads the dreary and monotonous work inside the house. She is...
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