The girl is rehearsing all the rules and ways she is supposed to conduct in her mind, or it could be the voice of her mother in her mind either way these rules and regulations that the girl has to live by is nothing more than commodification. She is no longer an individual,we can see this my the use of no name given her in the story only "girl". She is a tool of exchange value. The commodification is for an own advancement to be able to have all that a women of any worth is supposed to posess. (which is very sexist in my opinion) The fact that the girl is only seen as an object of exchange most be confusing and degrading for the girl who seems to always mention not wanting to become a slut. "like the slut I know you are bent on becomming." She is being pressured to think that sexual desires are wrong or not wanted in a women of worth to the world.
Seeing that there is no real plot line in the short story makes it even more interesting. There is just the ideology that her societal role is to appear like a well-mannered and skilled women, her labor is the exchange that men in society probably want from a women to be able to withstand domestic life.
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