ANALOGIES BETWEEN BOYS AND GIRLS AND HAMLET 

• The narrator is obedient to her father as Ophelia does with Polonius

• The narrator likes her father’s job as a fox farmer as Hamlet likes his father. So, both the characters are proud of their fathers

• The narrator doesn’t like her mother’s jobs and activities as Hamlet doesn’t like his mother’s behaviours with Claudius

• Narrator’s mother is a passive character like Hamlet’s mother Gertrude

• Both the girl and Hamlet doesn’t feel comfortable in their family and in the society, they are discontent. The girl because at the end of the story she realises her condition of inferiority than his brother as a female and Hamlet because he lives in a corrupt society where everybody is cowards. So, both don’t accept the evidence

• Polonius is self-absorbed as narrator’s father is absorbed in his job

• The narrator behaved impulsively when he opened the gate for the horse instead of closing it as Hamlet behaves impulsively during the play

• Polonius’ elaborate attempts to keep tabs on his children remind us that father can’t always be trusted to care for their children. Indeed, in the short story, the mother takes care of the children and not the father

• At the end, the narrator accepted her female condition as when Hamlet, during the famous monologue, says we are cowards because we accept things without making any choices because we are afraid of the consequences. In addition, the narrator didn’t do what she felt like doing because she felt obliged by society to follow a pre-coined model