Boys and Girls (short story)

Boys and girls ( Boys and Girls in the original ) is a short story by Alice Munro in 1964 or 1968. A version is available at womeninlit.tripod.com free on the web.

From the perspective of a teenage girl with no name episodes from everyday life are told on the silver fox farm their family of origin in first person. If it works with the father, the young people will be held for a boy, and of works by the mother keeps them so well it goes away. From the age of 11 years, the narrator are more and more expectations of a typical girl met with and their role in the family begins to change. When she behaves in an important situation of your own intuition after she is betrayed by her younger brother, what is the reason for the father to give its judgment in relation to their new status. The narrator comments on this in her last sentence with: " Maybe it was true. "

In English, the story has a length of about 17 pages and consists of three sections, of which the first is the shortest and the last the longest. In the German translation by Heidi Zerning the story is included in Munro's first collection of 1968, Dance of the Blessed Spirits, which was moved from Dörlemann Verlag in Zurich for the first time in 2010. The second edition appeared in 2013 under license by S. Fischer in Frankfurt am Main.

Boys and girls was filmed in 1983 as Boys and Girls and awarded in the following year with an Oscar for Best Short Film.