bove this vista rose the suntowers like a surrealist'sdream: four functioning, and a fifth under construction,their tops capped by sun-tracking petals of biomimeticmaterial containing tiny, environmentally benign artificial cell
I feel like this is a picture that we are talking about the future. That provides context
X frowned at them. “Can’t you tell?” Then X broke into a big, mischievous grin, “It’s a Y!”9
I think this story is optimistic. it shows that even though people might try to enforce and keep gender norms the same. That does not allow people to grow in the ways they should best. At first that was very difficult for the parents to see, but I think they grew into it. A moment I see optimism is in the paragraph before this, where X says its a Y.