I often fight with my husband about the household chores; his argument is that it is a women’s job to clean the house. Why is it a women’s job? I think that these stereotypes of men and women have their roots in religion. The role of a male and female in the family and society is clearly stated in the Bible. Today’s world has changed so much; for many people like gays …showed first 75 words of 961 total…

…showed last 75 words of 961 total…to do with gender. It is when gender roles enter the picture that she starts to change and become what she is not. "A girl was not, as I had supposed, simply what I was; it was what I had to become" (338). At the end, she does not deny that she has become “only a girl ”(343). She had been shaped into society's idea of a girl probably at the expense of her own true identity.