In Alice Munro's story "Boys and Girls," gender roles are explored and one of the ways the narrator finds her voice is through her stories. At night after she and her brother sing, she makes up stories in her mind where she is in nontraditional, masculine roles in which she is the hero. By creating these stories, the narrator is using her imagination to picture an alternate reality where she isn't limited to the role of a girl. She can be anything she wants to be in her stories. By the end of the story, unfortunately, reality has set in with her father's dismissive phrase, "She's only a girl." With this, she is forced to recognize that she will not be the character in her stories in real life. She will be only a girl.
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