He attempts to not allow her to write, makes her nap, and she is mostly confined to the bedroom. In Alice Munro’s, “Boys and Girls” the daughter faces the challenge of, based on the job of skinning foxes, living in a time where a girl should be in the house working, not outside. She is shamed by her mother for following around the father more than being in the house, so she is not just being stereotyped by men but also another woman. In the end, reality finally hits the main character when her father says, “She’s only a girl” and she does not even protest (Munro 166). Even the girl facing gender stereotyping begins to believe in the stereotypes