Cruelty is a very prevalent part of this story and helps readers understand the symbol of the dairy farm and how cruelty was the reason she went to the dairy farm and also how the abusive factors, helplessness and fear were also paths that led to the cruelty they had to face. These types of situations are the ones that happen all over the world where women are always put under pressure because they don't know how to get back on their feet and it seems that Claire Keegan realizes this not only in her story "Storms" but returns in her story “Quare Name For a Boy” and it is shown because it seems like she wants her female characters to take charge of their own lives and stop living for men. Reading her stories it seems like she likes him a lot