Girl

Since ancient times, a mother has fulfilled a primary role in raising their children. They are the one guiding and molding their children according to the society that they are living with. They should be able to match up with the standards within the society, in order for them to be generally accepted.

In the story, the mother was obviously being strict to her child to the point that she called her a slut. The vulgarity of the author in using such term was to emphasize more on the strictness of the mother in bringing up her daughter. The mother in the story was telling her daughter how to do things and act appropriately.

When the mother is explaining to her daughter the duties of being a good woman, she is focusing on the aspects of the older, more oppressive ways that a woman pleased a man. Making sure that she washed the clothes properly. The girl is also told how to prepare fish, choose bread, and handle food. All women's domestic domains. At the end she is taught how to keep a home. So we have all three major parts of a woman's work covered: cooking, cleaning, and humility so that the men of the time would not be left uncomfortable and be provided for.

Colonization was one of the leading factor why the mother is acting that way. The common notion that women was inferior to men was socially accepted in that time. So, it is very important for women to act decently to prove to themselves and to the society that they are equal to men and not inferior. The repetition of the term slut was to add effect to the mother's greatest desire which is to raise her daughter as their society dictates so.