ReflectionI like how Munro teases out the narrator's experience from wanting to be an adventurer to wanting to make her room fancy and the myriad little ways that direct her down this path. It's an interesting look at institutional engendering in that the narrator is perfectly capable at the farm but is increasingly pushed to do work and be like the mother and it's because of this, that she most relates to the female horse who is trying to escape and be free. And yet, this act of defiance is only understood as being something derogatory--"a girl."