What Is The Theme Of Boys And Girls By Alice Munro

The lines in the quote above show how much Alice Munro the narrator in the short story “Boys and Girls” was growing up without realizing it These stories that she would tell, always had some big adventure of her saving people and then all of a sudden turned into her being the one getting saved. This passage sticks out because it shows that she is slowly conforming to the person or woman she was trying to hide and fight back all along, the person that everyone else wants her to be and her boyish ways were fading away. This passage states that her growing up is was unfamiliar to her and that she did not really like it. She says that her stories had “mysterious alterations”, things she did not recognize taking place. The would start normal with “a spectacular danger” she would be the hero that saved every one and did not fear anything. She was brave, strong, and bold she had no limits for herself. She had the courage of a man but all that changed on night, she suddenly was
She was worried about “what she looked like” she would stop and think about these things so much that “the story concerned itself” all around her looks. She wondered how long her “hair” was and what it looked like, worrying about her hair would be the last thing she worried about if she was still a little tom boy. She also worried about what most girls worry about “what dress she had on.” Hero’s never worried about what they had on; they were only worried about the people in need. She never worried about these things before so the only explanation for it was her changing and maturing. By the time the narrator had stopped worrying about what she looked like she had lost “the real excitement” of the story. She was not into the stories as much because it had turned into a fairy tale, and she was still trying to push down those feelings of how she looked and toward