The daughters are young girls who want to be free and experience new things. They know that their father is strict because he forbids the daughters to wander through. The character of the mother in the passage is written to describe her as an understandable woman who wants to satisfy her daughters. She is indulgent towards her daughters.
The daughters are young, cheerful and curious, but they have struggled to fit in. From the passage, readers can see that the girls have a problem in school. They are experiencing problems socially with their peers.They want to experience a new culture, they want to go to the shopping mall or to watch a movie.
The poet presents the ways children see their own world as being delightful. They 'dance' and 'play' in this world. This tells us that they are happy there. It is a world adults don't understand because they 'cannot find the centre'.
