What Is The Theme Of Meneseteung By Alice Munro

The Life of a Woman in “Meneseteung” Alice Munro is one of the best short story writers to ever live. She is notably talented with her sharp precision and extreme detailing in her writings. She can”achieve an astonishing condensation of meaning within the restricted framework of the short-story form” (Moss and Sugars 334). Munro mainly focuses on resembling ordinary people in the utmost unordinary settings and in descriptive detail, enabling them to reveal their psychological innards and what their role in society, and in the short story, is. In her short story, “Meneseteung”, Munro reveals deep psychological emotions and their roots in social stigma. Ahe establishes her concern with the topic of women and their society, their struggles, and eventually coming to terms with their own past. “Meneseteung” was published in 1990, in Munro’s collection Friend of My Youth. The title of the short story signifies the arrival of the menstrual flow mentioned in Section V. Munro really embeds her fascination with the history of rural Ontario and enabling her main character, Almeda Almeda, to manifest and live in a poetess’ body and mentality, in order to “explore the nineteenth-century …show more content…
For instance, Vidette claims that Almeda’s poet status is both an asset and a disappointment for the town where “There seems to be a mixture of respect and contempt, both for her calling and her sex” (Munro 336). This indicates how women of the nineteenth-century were expected to be married, having a family and supporting of their husbands. However, Almeda does not conform to such a living style, as she explains her connection with the literature, saying “From my earliest years I have delighted in verse and I have occupied myself - and sometimes allayed my griefs… with many floundering efforts at is composition”