Foxes By Alice Munro

In Munro’s short story the protagonist grows up on a fox farm with her family, she is well aware of the role of the fox’s lives, as they are maturing the process of slaughter is the turning point for the foxes lives for their pelts. The maturing of the foxes to become slaughtered, link to the idea of a girl maturing to a woman. As the foxes are skinned and their pelts are sold compared to a woman being a “pelt” to the man she marries. “The naked slippery bodies were collected in a sack and buried at the dump” (pg.505), is a representation of women following these gender roles and more specific they are there to get married and have children. The life as a woman is demonstrated through the dump, being buried are the responsibilities that comes