rder for her to fit in. One example of the perception of her self was the dreams she had at the beginning of the story. Most times the dreams involved stories of some action and adventure. She would be called on as the heroine in the story and was found saving the day; most times it involved her either riding horses or shooting animals of some sort. An example of her masculine behavior was when she would help out with her father and her unwillingness to help her mother out with various household tasks. She would periodically help her father out on the farm with tasks like giving the foxes water, wheeling tanks up to the barn, and rake up the grass that her father had cut. W
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