On one hand, the women in this short story are oppressed, but on the other, they are not passive like the society expects them to be.
Can you see any resistance from these ladies?
First, the daughter is trying to voice her opinion. She doesn’t stay silent all the time.
The mother is probably a ‘slut’ before, so she doesn’t always follow the society’s expectation.
She bullied boys before.
The author presents various perspectives of women to the audience, not a stereotype of true womanhood.
The question is if the mother is not really a ‘true’ woman according to the society, then why does she teach her daughter to conform to the ideology of true womanhood?