Not only the pressure, but we also don’t have any interest to be lady-like; “‘You want to grow up to be a lady, don’t you?’ I said not particularly” (Lee 79). I haven’t felt the need to be a lady in a long while, despite all of the prodding from my mom and grandma. Speaking of prodding from my mom and grandma, “Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to do things that required pants. Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born...that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year” now, when I first read this segment, it gave me a huge sense of familiarity; my mom and grandma keep looking in disappointment upon my outfit choices, and sometimes I feel like I’m not being what they want me to
Not only the pressure, but we also don’t have any interest to be lady-like; “‘You want to grow up to be a lady, don’t you?’ I said not particularly” (Lee 79). I haven’t felt the need to be a lady in a long while, despite all of the prodding from my mom and grandma. Speaking of prodding from my mom and grandma, “Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to do things that required pants. Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born...that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year” now, when I first read this segment, it gave me a huge sense of familiarity; my mom and grandma keep looking in disappointment upon my outfit choices, and sometimes I feel like I’m not being what they want me to