In Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink there are many conflicts. The main one to me is the always standing “appropriate sex role behavior” for a young lady such as herself. This conflict has always and will always be around but now it’s in a Childs book and shows the hard time for girls who are tom-boys. So I feel the need to talk about the internal conflict of how Caddie feels about her tom-boy like self.Caddie Woodlawn, a young, eleven year old American girl from west in the 1860s is a wild fun loving tom-boy. She runs a muck with her brothers, hangs with the Indians, picks barriers, plows fields, and just be who she wants to be. Yet many want her to be a lady, which she does not. The one who truly wants her to be a lady is society and culture of the time and her mother Harriet. However, because she is allowed to get away with all this sovereignty is because her father, John, thinks it will better her health and ability to grow strong if she runs wild. Caddie realizes that she is dissimilar from other young ladies and women. In spite of that she is still happy with the way she lives and who she is and has no aspiration to change who she is. That’s what makes her a true American girl, and even better Pioneer.
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