“Always squeeze bread to make sure it’s fresh; but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won’t let near the bread?”
This final line in the story truly indicated the mothers feeling towards the girl and the fear of the daughter becoming a “slut”. The fear is so high that when the daughter interrupts her and ask “what if the baker wont let me feel the bread?” the mother immediately responds to her. She responds to her in a way that the mother is already believing that the daughter is an outcast “slut” in the eyes of the society.There is not much information of the girl. As the reader we don’t have much detail to say that the mother has reasoning for believing the daughter wants to be a “slut”. The mother seems to not be giving the girl much of a chance to prove herself. I believe in a way the mother is actually pushing the girl into becoming a slut rather then preventing.
I feel that the mother is trying to tell the daughter what she knows and has learned, to help prevent or help remove the name of “slut” from her. The mother is trying to use her insight so she can live a normal life that she has, teaching her how to do the everyday chores and such.
This story in a sense links with the good ol’ Sos Juana but the thing is that the content is extremely relevant to this day and age that we live in. We are in a age where we get everything we want right away. Something like music is a click away and you can always get a sample. The right now, right now standard of society definitely skews the view for children coming up in the world.