The author gives us an idea of how the narrator relates to the other person in the story

partly through the point of view. Since second person point of view allows feeling such that the
character is directly telling something and giving commands to the reader, the narrator should
be someone who sounds superior to the other character. In this story, the author chose to use
second person point of view to convince the reader that the narrator is older than other
character. By taking in some information about gender roles in the society, the contents
throughout the story revolves around life advice on doing housework and social life points out
that the narrator is the mother that teaches daughter about things that the society expect her to
do, just like what her mother experience. So, in conclusion, the narrator is most likely the mother
of the other character which should be a daughter rather than a son.

The tone and the controversial contents in this story really clarifies the deeper
relationship between this mother and daughter which shares something similar. The content that
the author chose to add in other than doing housework is about social life, focusing mostly on
how other people judge you (the mother and the daughter). The tone of the story feels like the
mother is teaching her daughter about surviving in the society, since the content of the story is
very controversial. That shows how caring the narrator is to her daughter, wanting her to
survive. With parts that contains sexism, such as “on Sunday try to walk like a lady and not like
the slut you are bent on becoming...” (p. 320), the readers could imply that they are being
judged as a slut, easier than other female. Also, adding the content about judging in general
such as “but what if the baker won’t let me feel the bread?” (p.321) it could not only amplifies the
sexism aspect of the story, but also add on a possible racism aspect to the story as well. Two
things could be implied from this on quote, first being the fact that the baker is usually a man,
and he might not want a woman to come near his products, resulting in sexism aspect of the
story. The other assumption that could be made is that the baker is disgusted by the race of the
mother and daughter ,and do not want them to come near his product. This comes from the fact
that westerners are mostly white and breads are known for being originated from the west.
Interpreting all of these evidence, the reader can conclude that the narrator, the mother, and her
daughter are people with dark skins and the mother cares about her daughter very much.