Boys And Girls And The Birth Mark: Literary Analysis

The two literary works that I have chosen are Boys and Girls and The Birth Mark. Each of these stories are about women that change who they are to please someone else. In The Birth Mark, Georgiana at one time liked her birth mark, until her husband Aylmer told her it was ugly. She then wanted to change something that was once a good luck charm to her. In Boys and Girls, the main character is a young girl that does everything she can to impress her father and to be one of the guys. But, after watching a killing of a horse, she started to feel different. In the end she helps another horse escape the farm from being shot. When her father finds out that she let the horse free, all he could say was that she was just a girl. At that moment his daughter