Girl

The short story "Girl" is a story of a mother talking to her daughter. The conversation that is taking place within the story is throughout the daughter’s life. The mother begins the talk with her daughter as how to do chores and then ends it with how to get a man that will treat you good and would marry you. Learning how to do chores is something that a little kid would learn how to do and learning how to get a man that would treat her right is something that a woman in her 20s would do. When you first hear the story, you would think that the mother is angry with her daughter and is yelling at her, but as the story continues, you realize that she is just trying to give her daughter advice using the common stereotypes of women. She is listing all the ways of how to be a real but fake woman at the same time. She lectures her daughter how to get what she wants from a guy without having a bad reputation after it. The mother used objects in place of what she actually meant when she was talking to her daughter. I feel like this connects to how society used to be before women received the rights that they have today. Before women had these rights, their jobs were to stay at home, clean the house, cook, and take care of their families while the men went out and worked. So in order for them to get what they needed, but couldn't afford, or to get money, they had to cheat on their husbands and sleep with other men. Now that women have these rights, they can go get a job, earn money, although they still make less than men do, and still be able to take care of their family. Today they are not forced to stay at home like they did in the past and they have equal rights as men do.