In the story, “Miles City, Montana,” written by Alice Munro depicts that the narrator as a woman whose personal identity among a community of conformity. The story begins from her childhood where the boy has drowned. This story is also known as frame narrative which means it has two stories in a single story. Firstly, the starting line of the story where the little boy drowned and the narrator tells, “I don’t think so. I don’t think I really saw all this” (1085). It means that the narrator does not have ability to see the little boy because she addresses the idea that memory recollection is not completely factual. Secondly, the story also represents the difference between a child’s perception of the responsibility of parents and the guilt of
