Short story

2. Gender Inequality explicitly
deals with social inequality
and domination which is
“enacted, reproduced and
resisted by text and talk.”
(van Dijk)

3. Traditional Gender
Roles:
Society said that girls did
the “inside” house work
and prepared the food, and
the men did the dirty
“outside” jobs and worked
on the farm.

6. “Why weren’t you watching
him?”
It is a complaint made by her parents.
They scold her due to irresponsibility to
take care off her brother, while she
herself is an immature girl.

7. Laird’s power as a
male child:
Girl is allowed to carry three-quarters full
watering can , on the other hand, he used
to fill his gardening can “too full.”
At the time of re-capturing Flora he is
invited to join by his male members, while
the “girl” must stay at home.
He is the part of his father’s bloody job in
order to kill Flora which affirms his
superior position in the society.

10. WORD CHOICES:
“Laird” means Lord which
conforms him a man of superior
sex and the “girl” has a
secondary importance.
The father “raised” foxes
keeping in a world surrounded
by a “high guard fence, like a
medieval town, with a gate that
was padlocked at night.”

11. During his meeting
with his wife, the father
used to wear his "stiff
bloody apron on, and a
pile of cut-up meat in
his hand."

12. The girl is "too used to
seeing the death of
animals" and she "did
not have any great
feelings of horror and
opposition" like other
girls.

13. VERB PHRASES:
"I had never disobeyed
my father before."

14. ALLUSIONS:
Robinson Crusoe is a favorite book of
her father.
“Heroic Calendars” supplied by the
Hudson’s Bay Company or the
Montreal Fur Traders hanging on the
walls of the kitchen.

15. “King Billy” is another
allusion which highlights
her interests in heroic wars
and such dreams of male
heroism conforms her trust
in male domain.

16. Use of Emotive
Language:
“A girl was not, as I supposed, simply
what I was; it was that I had to
become.”
“I was on Flora side… I did not regret:
why she came running at me and I
held the gate open, that was the only
thing I could do.”