Alice Munro's limited feminist approach in conveying a young girl's rite of passage in her short story "Boys and Girls".

Alice Munro's Boys and Girls attempts to use a limited feminist approach to convey a young girl's rite of passage into womanhood. Although the story has a strong viewpoint on the differences of a man and woman, the story also portrays the subtle differences emotionally between the two, often emotions that a child or adolescent cannot fight. Munro is found to use the relationship that the child shares with her mother and her father to …

…stated that she was in fact a woman, Munro's vision would not have been quite limited. Munro's story of Boys and Girls is an enlightening tale of the struggle that each child endures to find their own identity. Literature today uses the feminist approach to get across the views of oppressed women, yet the use of the limited amount of feminism allows the reader to contrive their own opinion of the beliefs of society today.