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The Role of Women in Society’s Eyes In the story “Girl,” the role of girls in the mid-1900's is defined. However, it is never clear to the reader who the narrator is. In this story I believe that the narrator is a young girl. This young girl is reviewing in her mind what society wants her to be, but some readers may see the girl reviewing what a mother would expect from her daughter. If a reader sees the mother as being the person with the expectations it could be problematic. The reason this could problematic is it would make the reader feel that the mother is being harsh in the language she uses and the demands that are being put upon her daughter are also harsh. Many times in society the word slut is used. It is to categorize a type of female that gives her body to many men. For society to view some girls like this and to tell girls not to be this way is acceptable. Society is not the person raising the girl it is speaking about and generally doesn’t focus on one girl, but several. So, in the case of the story “Girl,” the word slut must be coming from society. A mother in my eyes, would never tell her daughter that she is a slut or that she acts like a slut. Instead, she would go about telling her