What is the relationship between a mother and a daughter in the short story "Girl"?

Although
this short story is written in the form of a , spoken by the mother and addressed to the
daughter, there are moments too when we hear the daughter's voice. For example, it is the
daughter's voice protesting, "but I don't sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday
school." The daughter has one more line in the story: "but what if the baker won't let
me feel the bread?"

These two lines tell us quite a lot about how the
relationship between the mother and daughter is perceived by the daughter. Firstly, the fact
that she only speaks these two lines implies that the relationship is very one-sided and that
she, the daughter, isn't allowed to speak very much. The implication is that her voice and what
she might have to say does not much matter to her mother. The daughter is expected to follow
instructions and think in the way she is told to think. She is not expected to think for
herself. The first of the daughter's lines does suggest, however, that the daughter
might...