As every single parent knows raising their children is their biggest challenge because loving our kids is not enough to make good parents and give a good education. Alice McDermott tells us a story about this girl receiving a quit strict education and which ended ineffective because she did the opposite of every things she was tell not to do, Alice McDermott the author was raised in New York so she is used to the big city life probably she tried to give her point of view about strict education. I think that parents should leave some freedom to their Childs so they can judge the line between the good and the bad. This story shows the life of this woman who has been raised in a very conservative family but who became very excessive and libertine in every little pleasures of life, there's a big contradiction here so that's why I'm asking myself how should we raise our beloved, if I got a baby one day should tell him (or her) not to certain things risking that later she will do it by rebellion or by spirit of contradiction?
             To try to get some answers I'll first analyze the way the character of this story have been raised.
             We talk about her excessive behavior but we don't emphasize enough the excessive education she received, her parents certainly trying to be the best for their 6 children "she was he youngest child, the third girl with three brothers" (14) in the same time we see that's it's not easy for them to raised their children they had only one dinner with their father because he had to work a lot to earn enough money to feed all the family "Sunday dinner was the only meal they had with their father, who worked two jobs to keep them all fed" (20).
             As a result we got those very responsible parents who maybe try to hard to give a good education which was more a pressure for the protagonist, for example during the meal girls had to follows a lot of rules "a...