Throughout the story, the protagonist constantly asks her mother questions that specifically pertain to her personal interests. Most of the questions are stereotypically related to boys and what they usually do: activities such as riding bicycles, climbing trees and playing in the rain. The protagonist initially asked her mother if her interests are socially correct. Reassuringly, the mother responds to her daughter's questions in a way that suggests it is acceptable for her to resist binary standards. “Gender is such a familiar part of everyday life that it usually takes a deliberate disruption of our expectations of how women and men should act to pay attention to how it is produced” (Lorber, 54). In this generation, gender plays a significant role in our thoughts about what is and is not socially acceptable for a woman and a man. It is such a norm that we unconsciously create two separate groups and suggest which activity corresponds to which group. Reluctantly, the mother does not want her daughter to refuse a certain activity because it is associated only with the opposite sex. Mother suggests to daughter that it's okay to break away from binary norms, however that's not how she feels when it comes to social construction