The Aunt's story is didactic- its purpose is to teach a moral lesson. How do the children react to her story and why?

The aunt begins to tell a story about "a little girl who was good" (3). The little girl made a lot of friends and these people save her from a wild bull because she is good. The children interrupt the story to ask more curious, humorous questions such as "Would they have saved her if she hadn't been good?" (3), which the aunt is again unable to answer well. The children call the story stupid. As a result, the aunt seems to believe that disciplining children is the most important thing, and she clearly does not value fostering the children's natural curiosity. The man, on the other hand, does not seem to feel responsibility at all for teaching the children to behave a certain way, except perhaps to question authority.