Being a girl trying to experience childhood, the girl in "Boys and Girls" was very restricted in finding out who she is, because of her dad's expectations. Perhaps because of the way he was raised, he made judgments on her before she had even done anything wrong (or 'girly', in his eyes). Before the day she let the horse out, her father seemed to be waiting for the day when she would slip. It was …showed first 75 words of 588 total…

…showed last 75 words of 588 total…understandable because she is still young. But, it's surprising that the mother doesn't instinctively defend her daughter, if they do in fact have the tight bond that we are lured into thinking. If the girl and her mother had had a closer bond than was portrayed, would she have spoken up? In the end, it seems that a marital bond is closer than that of a blood linked bond of a mother and her daughter.