Also, the narrator is not the only one who accepts his identity. His little brother Laird develops a desire to do masculine things around the house. The narrator hears his mother talking to his father and saying, "Wait until Laird grows up, you'll have real help." » This represents the family's characteristic expectations of Laird: to follow in his father's footsteps. "The girl" obviously sensed their higher expectations of Laird and her jealousy began to show. One day, she made Laird climb the ladder to the top beam, believing he would get into trouble. But when his parents arrived, it was the narrator who was in trouble, with her parents shouting, "Why weren't you watching him?" This shows the double standards between the sexes in their family and in the general public. She shared a room with her brother, and at night, after he fell asleep, she would stay awake and tell him stories. In these stories, she imagined herself as a heroine, she was courageous and spirited and everyone admired her. These stories represented the woman she wanted to become; powerful and independent, which was the complete opposite of the stereotypical “girl” her family wanted her to become. Another example of the protagonist's struggle for identity is her identification with one of the family's horses, Flora. The father fed his foxes with horse meat. Therefore, the family was sometimes healthy