“And it gives one of my games. But it’s mostly about me being a girl.”
“Well, you are one”
“It shouldn’t be that important,” Beth said.
“They didn’t print half the things I told them. They didn’t tell about Mr. Shaibel. They didn’t say anything about how I play the Sicilian.”
“But, Beth,” Mrs. Wheatley said, “it makes you a celebrity!”
Beth looked at her thoughtfully, “For being a girl, mostly,” she said.
Beth was sad, the highlight of the article is just about her being a girl who plays chess. Her ambition about chess is just getting faded just because they highlight the fact that she is a woman. She thinks it must be normal for women to do chess because chess is genderless. She wants to encourage other women too to fight for their dream and don’t limit their space just because they are women. But Mr. Wheatley is impulsive and gives speculation the most important that she is being a celebrity.
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