Throughout the story, the protagonist constantly asks her mother questions that specifically concern her personal interests. Most of the questions are stereotypical with young boys and what they usually do – activities such as riding bikes, climbing trees, and playing in the rain. The protagonist first asked her mother if her interests were socially correct. Reassuringly, the mother responds to her daughter's questions in a way that suggests it is acceptable for her to resist binary norms. “Gender is such a familiar part of everyday life that it usually takes a deliberate disruption of our expectations of how women and men are supposed to act to pay attention to how it is produced” (Lorber, 54 years old). In this generation, gender plays an important role in our thoughts about what is and is not socially acceptable for a woman and a man. It is such a norm that we unconsciously create two distinct groups and suggest which activity corresponds to which group. Reluctantly, the mother does not want her daughter to give up a certain activity because it is only associated with the opposite sex. Mother suggests to daughter that binary norms should be broken, but that's not how she feels when it comes to social construct.