Many of the images and events in "Boys and Girls" have to do with freedom or the lack of it. The narrator defines freedom in a number of situations. In this story, the male world represents freedom while the female world represents confinement. In the narrator's perspective, her mother was confin...

Boy's Emotional Needs Issues Summary Growing up male in America has inherent difficulties. Teenage boys are leading lonelier lives in America because there is less of an extended family around them to teach them morals. All they have to go by is their peers, television, and now more ...