Grace is forced to move out because she can not accept her husband's culture. She decides to adapt. Grace scarcely alters her perception. Her life is abruptly interrupted by her new in-laws, and she holds fast to the security of her own culture and her ethnocentric views. Her American culture is the only culture in which she wishes to surround herself.
Grace fails to see the advantages of learning their language, rituals or customs.
Even from the first moments of their arrival, the group of young children are bombarded with the differences of the new culture. The major difference between Grace and the young Native American girl is that one is able to change her perception and the other keeps her narrow viewpoint. Grace's indifference to the Indian culture stems from the fact that she has other options. She moves out to escape the confrontation. The Indian girl, however, has nowhere to turn.