In society everyone is classified under a race; this is what divides individuals based on their inherited physical characteristics such as skin color, eye color, and hair color. Many people are easily confused between race and ethnicity, the difference is that ethnicity refers to cultural factors such as nationality, language and beliefs. In the story "Life as a Servant's Daughter" by Mary Romero we explore the boundaries, Teresa, one of the main characters, faces every day based on her race, gender, and class. We see that living with boundaries creates frustration and confusion early in Teresa's life. Teresa is both bilingual and bicultural, meaning she can speak two languages ​​and respects two cultures. Teresa, however, struggles to maintain her Mexican identity due to her mother's job and her way of life. These struggles faced cause Teresa to capture the social stratification in the United States at a young age. Teresa was known as the “servant's daughter” and learned her mother's social position in kindergarten. Teresa was dragged with her mother to each employer's home; it was difficult for her to enter every house because she would have to respect some rules in every house. Teresa was socialized by employers and their children; this is because Carmen, Teresa's mother, worked for families that "emphasized[] conformity and change." This prompted Teresa to act out and run away, the families made no attempt to create an environment where Teresa was able to express her racial background as other children could. “She [Teresa] was clearly different from other children, “a novelty”, and was bound by rules that governed her use of social space and language… center of card…, “Women are the most disadvantaged, in part because inequality during their working lives is reflected in lower pensions. In the United States, for example, the eight million women over the age of 65 constitute by far one of the poorest groups in America, and nearly so. half of them live below the poverty line” (Kapoor 1985). In addition to this serious economic problem that Teresa faced with her mother's low-income job, she also lacked emotional support he ran away when his mother worked in the family home. This showed that Teresa did not know how to show her emotions and when she made him run away it was her only coercion strategy. Carmen, Teresa's mother was busy and had to work to be able to support herself. but this problem of poor women in US shows that it also affects family life in the way Teresa was left with little support from her mother.