Based on Dove’s experiences, it can be inferred that the school’s educational and social goals were based on the male-dominant European American culture of the time; a culture of which Dove was not familiar. They punished her for actions that did not reflect the perfect image that the school had created of its students, and did not allow her to speak in her native language. Her goals and the school's goals did not align, causing conflict and her "failure" educationally. Dove also did not conform to the social goals taught by the school, as she was eventually married to a man, in an attempt to embrace the social norms of the school she was taught at. The marriage resulted in failure, and ended shortly. The goals of the school, both educationally and socially, were not intended to embrace individuality, but to develop a sense of similarity between the different students raised in that environment, in an attempt to force them to fit the perfect picture of what an American should be.
