... to her idea of safety, the barn, where she feels like she is "free", which is true on many levels. Not only is she free to roam around the family property, but she is free of her nagging mother. The narrator's freedom from her mother is well understood of a child her age. It seems that to the narrator her mother just ... . When the narrator is crying at the dinner table we notice that the very statement that would have angered her to no end in the beginning of the story now passes by without too much of a thought, as her father makes the statement, "She's only a girl" (Munro 375). This s...

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