Alice Munro use the legend of Moirai to show the dominate role of fate of individual’s life. The Moirai is known as Fate in English which has three sisters with different responsibility in determine individual’s fate. Moirai used be a patron saint who protect the village by join in people’s birth. Three sisters are Clotho who textile the line of life with a spindle in hand, Lachesis who measures each person’s life with a measuring rod, and Atropos who responsible for cutting the line of life which mean end the life. They draw peoples’ future. Munro points out that Ben have no control to his family. The fate drop him from business man in Uppertown to a door-to-door salesman in poverty town. The narrator’s mother who is also Ben’s wife influence
